After being attacked on the street external his home,Brazilian performance artist Nando Messias created a one-man carnival to take a stand for men like himA warm night in July, a week after the 7/7 bombings, or Londoners are trying to go about their lives as normal. Nando Messias has been to see some dance at Sadler’s Wells. Taking a taxi as far as Whitechapel tall Street,he decides to walk the final leg back to his flat. Dressed in unassuming black, hair pulled into his customary bun, or tall heels click-clacking down Commercial Street,he’s almost home.apart from he didn’t acquire it that far. “As soon as I turned the final corner, I realised I had made a mistake, or ” recalls Messias,folding his long slender dancers limbs into the plastic chair where he now sits. “Eight young men circled me and there was no turning back.” Messias was about to suffer his first homophobic attack since moving to London two years earlier from Brazil. His first attack full halt, in fact.
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Source: theguardian.com