Luiz Luiz Roberto de Barros Mott (born May 6, 1946 in São Paulo, Brazil) is an anthropologist, a historian and one of the most notable gay civil rights activists in Brazil. He is widely known internationally for his great contributions in the field of Brazilian queer studies.

His body of work is extensive, most notably is his research about homosexuality during the Catholic Holy Inquisition in Brazil, homosexuality and slavery, lesbianism during colonial Brazil, etc. Additionally, Luiz Mott has published extensively about homosexuality in modern times, appearing in interviews, commemorations and demonstrations.

Luiz Mott graduated in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo/USP during the repressive military regime, obtained a masters degree in Ethnography from Sorbonne/Paris and a doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Campinas/Unicamp (São Paulo, Brazil). Luiz Mott is professor emeritus of the Department of Anthropology of the Federal University of Bahia/UFBA state of (Bahia, Brazil).

Luiz Mott is the founder of the Grupo Gay da Bahia, one of the main and the oldest gay rights organizations active in the country (see link below). He was the Human Rights Secretary of the Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians and Transvestites/Secretário de Direitos Humanos da Associação Brasileira de Gays, Lésbicas e Travestis/ABGLT and member of the National Commition on AIDS of the Ministry of Health/Comissão Nacional de Aids do Ministério da Saúde and of the National Counsil Against Discrimination of the Ministry of Justice/Conselho Nacional de Combate à Discriminação do Ministério da Justiça.

External links:

• Grupo Gay da Bahia (http://www.ggb.org.br/ggb-ingles.html) (Intro page in English/Website is mostly in Portuguese)
• Luiz Mott's Official Website (http://luizmott.cjb.net) (in Portuguese)
• Felipa de Souza Awards (http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/content.php?type=1&id=26) (in English)