In Brazil, art exhibits latest flashpoints in cultural war
(World News Brazil)

SAO PAULO (AP) -- A couple of modern art exhibits and a play have become leading battlegrounds in a growing culture war in Brazil, a nation whose fame for barely there bikinis masks a rising trend of conservatism. Protesters waved a Brazilian flag and shouted "No! No! Not our children!" to denounce an exhibit at Sao Paulo's Museum of Modern Art in which visitors, including a child, were invited to touch a nude man. A bank-backed cultural center bowed to pressure and cancelled a Queermuseu exhibit exploring sexual diversity - only to have prosecutors denounce the incident as censorship. And a play portraying Jesus as a transgender woman led protesters to leap on the stage. A...