Brazil gay pride parade

São Paulo, Brazil&#;s LGBT+ parade draws over 3 million in a spectacle of pride and politics

São Paulo, Brazil – LGBT+ people and supporters from all corners of Brazil and even other countries gathered on Sunday in the country’s largest municipality, São Paulo, to celebrate diversity, cherish, and to reaffirm their commitment to the freedom to be themselves.

After a week of cloudy weather, with temperatures fluctuating between 10°C and 20°C, the sun came out, pushing thermometers up to 26°C along Avenida Paulista, the city’s main thoroughfare. 

The rainbow, a symbol of LGBT+ rights, was ubiquitous &#; painted on faces, adorned on clothing, waving flags, and on sparkly accessories.

The party kicked off at 10 a.m., and over the course of more than six hours, dozens of artists performed on 16 parade floats that traveled the miles of the avenue, drawing large crowds.

According to the São Paulo LGBT Pride Parade Association (APOLGBT-SP), which organized the event, over 3 million people participated in the celebration.

With a strong political message, the parade&#;s slogan

Gay pride revelers in Sao Paulo reclaim Brazil’s national symbols

SAO PAULO, Brazil — The iconic yellow and green of Brazil’s flag mixed with a sea of rainbow-colored tutus, hand fans and drag queen hairdos at Sunday’s LGBTQ pride parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The annual event along Sao Paulo’s main thoroughfare is among the biggest gay pride celebrations in the world, attracting thousands of people to celebrate the sexual diversity in a state synonymous with street partying but where violence and discrimination against members of the LGBTQ community has surged in recent years.

While apparel is mostly optional, this year organizers made a exceptional appeal for participants to wear verdant and yellow in a pointed rebuke to far-right followers of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who in recent time appropriated Brazil’s national symbols for themselves.

“We will march this afternoon to take back our flag and to show that Brazil will be better, it will be queer, butch, transvestite,” Erika Hilton, who in became one of two openly transgender people elected to Brazil’s congress, told a c

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