Blessed cure is an award-winning gay webcomic now published as a graphic novel that looks at the issues faced by LGBTQ+ people in Brazil including religious upbringing and conversion therapy. A hard-hitting and brutally honest queer story following one closeted Brazilian man’s life from the 1960s to 2017. (Check trigger warning before purchase).
 
Since he was a child, Acacio do Nascimento was different from other boys. Scared of his possible homosexuality, his parents Mara and Galdino submit Acacio to several treatments from the age of five years old to make him ‘normal’. Blessed Cure narrates Acacio’s life through the decades since the 60’s from childhood provocations, his parent's ignorance, the first time he falls in love with a man, the Brazilian military action against LGBTQ+ people, workplace prejudice and his constant struggle with whether to live his truth or live the life society wants him to.