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There has been a lot in the global news media recently about the new President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, and the highly controversial things he is alleged to have said in the past.

Some quotes are attributed to him in a 2018 New York Times article. For example:

In June 2011, he said he would “rather his son die in a car accident than be gay,”

However, in discussions about this on social media, I've seen several Brazilians claim that it's "fake news", that he isn't really homophobic or racist, and that these news articles are just a "globalist scam" to discredit him.

Portuguese isn't a language I speak, so I'm having trouble verifying the original sources and context of this quote.

Can anyone point to the original source of this quote?

The English Wikipedia page on Bolsonaro mentions: "[...] Bolsonaro said that "I would be incapable of loving a gay son", and added that he would prefer any gay son of his "to die in an accident". This was apparently said in an interview with Playboy Magazine in 2011, and is mentioned here as well (linked to Wikipedia).

The headline is "Bolsonaro: "prefiro filho morto em acidente a um homossexual". While I also do not spek Portuguese, in this case it's quite similar to Spanish, which I understand a little.

Prefiro filho morto em acidente is "I prefer (a) son that dies in an accident", a um homosexual is a comparative roughly translated as "over a homosexual (one)"

Terra is a news aggregation website like Yahoo!, MSN, and such (see here). Unfortunately, I'm on a work computer right now and would rather not Google for Playboy, even though this time it's really for the articles ;)

Yes. In an interview with the Brazilian version of the Playboy magazine (in Portuguese, published June 2011, available on Archive.org), when asked what he would do if his son "turned homosexual", he said:

Tem certas coisas que digo que é como a morte. Me daria desgosto, me deixaria triste, e acho até que ele mesmo me abandonaria num caso desses. Para mim é a morte. Digo mais: prefiro que morra num acidente do que apareça com um bigodudo por aí. Para mim ele vai ter morrido mesmo.

This roughly translates to:

There are certain things that I say are as death. It would bring me disgust, would make me sad, and I even think that he, himself, would abandon me in that case. To me, it is death. And more: I'd rather he died in an accident than show up with some guy. To me, he really would have died.

In the same interview, when asked about whether he could love a homosexual son, he replied negatively - "Seria incapaz", Portuguese for "I would be unable [to do so]".

Yes, it's true. I'm Brazilian and our elected president has a lot of homophobic, misogynous and racist quotes. As a candidate, he tried to soften the declarations, even showing in public with LGBTQI+ people, but the first decree by president, changing the organization of government, excluded LGBTQI+ people from humam rights policies.