Janet CollinsBrazil’s Gay Pride
June 8th 2010 14:15
The Sydney Mardi Gras has some serious international competition. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, this last weekend, celebrations for their annual Gay Pride festivities boasted an estimated three million participants.
The festival is the city’s fourteenth and in true Brazilian style threw a colourful festival on the weekend that organisers claim is now the biggest in the world.
The parade wasn’t entirely for fun either. Organisers embedded a political message in the campaign supporting the gay population and urged everyone to “vote against homophobia”.
Organisers and gay rights groups are hoping their clout will influence politicians into fighting for a more tolerant society. Even in the open Brazilian society there was a reported 198 gays killed in homophobic attacks last year.
The parade is an annual one that began in 1997 and in its short fourteen years has grown into a festival that outdoes the annual parade in San Francisco and Sydney’s Mardi Gras.
The website for the Sao Paulo Gay Pride Parade can be found here.
Image credit: www.gaypridebrazil.org
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Comment by Mountain Fog
I'd love to see it, and it is no wonder it is now the biggest parade, with over 190 million people living in Brazil, it is no wonder their gay parade is the biggest!!
cheers
fog
Comment by Janet Collins
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It would have been some spectacle I am sure. Sydney will now have to lift their game to ensure we still get international travellers to our event.
Thank you for the visit.
Comment by Michaelie
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