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Contents:

• SãO PLO GAY PRI
• THE RABOW OVER SãO PLO: THE LGBTQ PRI PARA AND OTHER GAY-FRIENDLY ACTIVI
• BRAZIL CELEBRAT GAY PRI AND FAVORABLE SUPREME COURT RULG
• SAO PLO GAY PRI 2024
• GAY PRI R
• BEHD BRAZIL'S GAY PRI PARAS, A STGGLE WH HOMOPHOBIC VLENCE
• GAY R JANEIRO
• GAY BRAZIL

SãO PLO GAY PRI

São Plo Gay Pri (officially La Parada do Orgulho GLBT São Plo) is an annual pri celebratn that lors the cy streets every year June.

São Plo Gay Pri first started 1997, wh roughly 2, 000 participants, but is now regnized as the biggt Pri Para the world, attractg an timated three to five ln participants each year.

Every year, São Plo Gay Pri pris an credible pri para which travels down the Avenida Plista, and ually tak place on the Sunday after the Corp Christis holiday.

THE RABOW OVER SãO PLO: THE LGBTQ PRI PARA AND OTHER GAY-FRIENDLY ACTIVI

While the first pri gatherg took place 1997, the first São Plo Gay Pri that was officially anized by APOGLBT – (Pri Associatn of gays, lbians, bisexuals and transexuals) transpired 1999. On top of the Pri Para, there are a range of LGBTQ-related activi and events which take place durg São Plo Gay Pri. So whether you like the ia of engagg some queer-related entertament, or you're already set on attendg the São Plo Pri Para, there is always somethg for everyone at São Plo Gay Pri.

São Plo’s stat as a gay-iendly cy extends well beyond the month of Orgullo, so if you vis on any other day of the lendar and want to get to the Plistano gay scene, go to the bars, shops and rtrants of Rua Frei Cane, known lloquially as Gay Cane, the district of Consolaçao. Another meetg pot is Largo do Arouche, an area famo for s flower market, but also for hostg var bs and spac for the gay muny. 1 of 8 | Revelers wave rabow flags durg the annual gay pri para along Plista avenue Sao Plo, Brazil, Sunday, June 23, 2019.

2 of 8 | A reveler pos for a picture durg the annual gay pri para along Plista avenue Sao Plo, Brazil, Sunday, June 23, 2019. 3 of 8 | Revelers are reflected a buildg’s wdows durg the annual gay pri para along Plista avenue Sao Plo, Brazil, Sunday, June 23, 2019.

BRAZIL CELEBRAT GAY PRI AND FAVORABLE SUPREME COURT RULG

5 of 8 | Dogs ri a baby rriage rated wh a rabow flag durg the annual gay pri para along Plista avenue Sao Plo, Brazil, Sunday, June 23, 2019.

6 of 8 | Revelers strike a pose durg the annual gay pri para along Plista avenue Sao Plo, Brazil, Sunday, June 23, 2019.

SAO PLO GAY PRI 2024

1 of 8Revelers wave rabow flags durg the annual gay pri para along Plista avenue Sao Plo, Brazil, Sunday, June 23, 2019.

2 of 8A reveler pos for a picture durg the annual gay pri para along Plista avenue Sao Plo, Brazil, Sunday, June 23, 2019. 3 of 8Revelers are reflected a buildg’s wdows durg the annual gay pri para along Plista avenue Sao Plo, Brazil, Sunday, June 23, 2019. 5 of 8Dogs ri a baby rriage rated wh a rabow flag durg the annual gay pri para along Plista avenue Sao Plo, Brazil, Sunday, June 23, 2019.

6 of 8Revelers strike a pose durg the annual gay pri para along Plista avenue Sao Plo, Brazil, Sunday, June 23, 2019. While São Plo hosts one of the world’s largt pri paras and R Janeiro is a well-known gay tourist statn, LGBT people Brazil suffer high levels of vlence. Acrdg to activist group Gpo Gay Bahia, 141 LGBT people were killed homophobic crim or mted suici between January and May 15 of this year — an average of one every 23 activists say Bolsonaro’s anti-gay rhetoric c or legimiz vlence agast LGBT people.

GAY PRI R

He once said he would rather have a ad son than a gay son, and he ma headl April when he told reporters that Brazil “n’t be a untry of the gay world, of gay tourism. ”LGBT activists won a major battle this month when Brazil’s Supreme Court voted to crimalize discrimatn agast homosexuals and transgenr people. Loted two hours north of R Janeiro by r is the cy of Juiz Fora, which has hosted the Miss Gay Brazil ntt for the past 35 years.

BEHD BRAZIL'S GAY PRI PARAS, A STGGLE WH HOMOPHOBIC VLENCE

Some regns the untry also have expand laws that protect LGBTQ+ people, such as Juiz Fora cy and São Plo state, which troduced anti-homophobia laws 2000 and 2001. Vlent aths of LGBT people Brazil have h an all-time high followg a sudn spike last year, new rearch least 445 LGBT Brazilians died as victims of homophobia 2017 – a 30% crease om 2016, acrdg to LGBT watchdog group Gpo Gay victims – 387 murrs and 58 suicis – clu Dandara dos Santos, a transexual woman who was beaten to ath the north-eastern Brazil cy Fortaleza March.

GAY R JANEIRO

A vio of her beg beaten and kicked circulated on social media wh her torturers llg her homophobic is one of the world’s most vlent untri, wh a rerd 62, 000 homicis 2016, but thors of the rearch say that the aths were directly related to Mott, an anthropologist and print of Gpo Gay Bahia, said the risg vlence owed much to the promence of ultranservative policians, many of whom are lked to the untry’s powerful evangelil uc ngrs.

GAY BRAZIL

“It’s a disurse that stroys solidary and equat LGBT people to animals, ” he programs lked to evangelil church often pare homosexualy to the vil, she saidHomophobic speech is not a feral crime Brazil, while siar state and municipal laws are rarely effective or enforced.

“In the last Brazil looked to produce polici that uld protect vulnerable groups like gay and trans people but they mostly failed, due to lack of vtment or change visn of policy, ” said Jurema Werneck, executive director at Amnty Internatnal vlence might seem at odds wh Brazil’s image as an clive natn that is home to the world’s largt gay para and where gay marriage is the untry has a strong nservative streak too: one of the leadg ndidat this year’s printial electn is former army pta Jair Bolsonaro who has said that gay children n be “beaten straight” March last year, feral ngrsman Victór Galli said on rad that Mickey Moe was a homosexual filtrator and Disney was an apologist for “gayns” sendg sublimal msag to September, a Brazilian judge approved gay “nversn therapy”, a week after an exhibn of gay art was ncelled.