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R GAY PRI AIMS TO TACKLE BRAZILIAN 'HOMOPHOBIA'
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R Janeiro State Universy and Universy of Campas released a study 2010 which found that 60 per cent of Brazilians nsir homosexualy as “natural”. Of those, 39 per cent intified as gay men, 36 per cent intified as transgenr, 12 per cent intified as lbian, and 2 per cent intified as bisexual.
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Bisexuals spend more of their liv the closet than gays & lbians. Image source, AFPImage ptn, The R Gay Pri has bee a regular fixture the cy's lendar of big eventsHuge crowds have been takg part R Janeiro's Gay Pri para. Mothers of gay men and women opened the para, which this year aimed to highlight the issue of homophobia Brazilian Ar-Iris says 266 people were killed Brazil last year bee of their sexual orientatn.
"The Lbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgenr muny spends most of the year Brazil hidg, prived of many of their rights, " Ar-Iris print Jul Moreira told Jornal do Brasil newspaper. Carnival atmosphereR is wily seen as a liberal cy, and many fai jo the party every source, AFPImage ptn, Joubert Moreno (left) and Katya Maranhao pay homage to Brazilian gay-in Carmen MirandaBut mpaign groups say there is a lot to be done maly smaller towns and ci across the untry. "We need to discs this issue the schools and the Natnal Congrs, " Mr Moreira 's 17th Gay Pri is backed by the lol ernment and has a te rnival atmosphere, which attracts foreign tourists and visors om other parts of Brazil.
"I am here to mpaign for homophobia to bee a crime unr Brazilian law, " said school teacher Katya Furao. 1 and once scribed himself as a "proud homophobe.
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"So many people are dyg for g out of the closet and beg homosexual. "While São Plo hosts one of the world's largt pri paras and R Janeiro is a well-known gay tourist statn, LGBTQ people Brazil suffer high levels of vlence.