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Biggest Gay Pride Parade in Brazil!
Jun. 17th, 2006 10:00 pmToday was the gay pride parade in São Paulo here in Brazil. It's the biggest of the world, people come from all around the world.
From fox news:
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Hundreds of thousands of gay men, lesbians and transvestites waving rainbow flags and dressed in lavish Carnival costumes paraded in Brazil's biggest city Saturday to celebrate gay pride and demand an end to homophobia.
The 10th annual Sao Paulo Gay Pride Parade also turned into a cheering festival for Brazil's World Cup soccer team, with many paraders dressed in the country's yellow, green and blue.
Organizers said Sao Paulo's pride parade is the largest of its kind on the planet and that they hoped to attract more than 2 million people. Police did not immediately release crowd estimates.
Go-go boys and drag queens danced on the roofs of trucks rolling down the skyscraper-lined Avenida Paulista -- Sao Paulo's financial heart.
Organizers picked this year's theme -- a call to halt hate crimes against gays.
Despite a certain measure of tolerance for gays, whose drag parades are major draws during carnival celebrations, anti-homosexual discrimination is widespread across this nation of more than 185 million, said Nelson Matias Pereira, a spokesman with the Brazilian Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans-gender Pride Parade Association.
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From fox news:
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Hundreds of thousands of gay men, lesbians and transvestites waving rainbow flags and dressed in lavish Carnival costumes paraded in Brazil's biggest city Saturday to celebrate gay pride and demand an end to homophobia.
The 10th annual Sao Paulo Gay Pride Parade also turned into a cheering festival for Brazil's World Cup soccer team, with many paraders dressed in the country's yellow, green and blue.
Organizers said Sao Paulo's pride parade is the largest of its kind on the planet and that they hoped to attract more than 2 million people. Police did not immediately release crowd estimates.
Go-go boys and drag queens danced on the roofs of trucks rolling down the skyscraper-lined Avenida Paulista -- Sao Paulo's financial heart.
Organizers picked this year's theme -- a call to halt hate crimes against gays.
Despite a certain measure of tolerance for gays, whose drag parades are major draws during carnival celebrations, anti-homosexual discrimination is widespread across this nation of more than 185 million, said Nelson Matias Pereira, a spokesman with the Brazilian Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans-gender Pride Parade Association.
( More pics )
