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Added on: 08/29/2024
08/28/2024
São Sebastião, in Brazil, is preparing to host the 5th LGBT Pride Parade, an event that promises to be a milestone in celebrating the diversity and rights…

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Added on: 08/27/2024
08/26/2024
It was June 12, Lover’s Day in Brazil. Leo Nunes, 24, had spent a few days talking to someone he met on Hornet, a popular gay dating…

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Added on: 08/22/2024
08/21/2024
Brazilian football legend Marta has announced her engagement to Orlando Pride team-mate Carrie Lawrence. The proposal, which took place during a serene picnic, was a huge moment…

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Added on: 07/04/2024
07/03/2024
In the face of Cameroon‘s criminalization of LGBTQ+ relationships, the daughter of the nation’s president has come out. Brenda Biya, daughter of President Paul Biya, revealed in a recent post…

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Added on: 06/30/2024
06/29/2024
“Visibility” is a word that permeates the history of the LGBTQIA+ struggle in Brazil. Not even during the most violent and authoritarian times—such as the military dictatorship—was…

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Added on: 06/23/2024
06/22/2024
When nearly 2.5 million people converged on Sao Paulo this year for the world’s biggest gay pride parade, the celebration emphatically reminded Brazil’s presidential candidates of the…

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Added on: 06/13/2024
06/12/2024
Brazilian medical professionals are celebrating Pride Month with the hashtag #DesafioMedicasLGBT or #MedicalChallengeLGBT. Doctor Vinícius Borges launched the playful challenge. In it, the health workers pass a uniformed worker…

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Added on: 06/03/2024
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…

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Added on: 05/23/2024
05/22/2024
São Paulo, Brazil – In 2023, 230 LGBTI+ individuals were violently killed in Brazil, according to data released this month by the Observatory of LGBTI+ Deaths and Violence….

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Added on: 05/12/2024
05/11/2024
Until a few years ago, few places in Brazil had gay parades. Today, however, the reality is different. From Oiapoque to Chuí, distant cities celebrate their LGBT…

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Added on: 05/10/2024
05/09/2024
Homophobia and transphobia numbers show that violence against the LGBT group has not decreased. On the contrary, it increased. This year, every hour a homosexual, bisexual, transvestite…

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Added on: 05/03/2024
05/02/2024
Grag Queen, the host of Brazil’s Drag Race spin-off, has spoken about being forced to undergo conversion therapy. The drag queen shot to fame as the winner of…

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Added on: 05/02/2024
05/01/2024
Due to the 2013 resolution of the National Justice Council, which emphasizes that all registry offices must carry out civil unions between people of the same sex,…

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Added on: 04/29/2024
04/28/2024
A EXPO Diversity, event aimed at the end consumer, aimed at the public, LGBT and people who value culture, entertainment and quality products, will take place at the event…

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Added on: 04/12/2024
04/11/2024
“Ballroom changes lives, you know? It’s inevitable,” said Maru Camargo, who joined Rio de Janeiro’s Ballroom scene about a year ago after moving from the countryside. If you…

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Added on: 03/29/2024
03/28/2024
The dream of leaving her small town to see the world has been fulfilled, as she’s ventured throughout and beyond her native Brazil. Now, she has another dream:…

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Added on: 01/30/2024
01/29/2024
The next lesbian, gay, or transgender person to be the godparent of a baby baptized in a Catholic parish, or in a cathedral, in any corner of…

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Added on: 01/21/2024
01/20/2024
At least 257 people from the LGTBI population were murdered in Brazil last year, of which 49.42% of the victims belonged to transvestite and transgender groups, according…

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Added on: 01/16/2024
01/15/2024
Wearing heavy makeup and a fuchsia wig, Brazilian drag queen Helena Black is acting out a story for a rapt group of children — but this is…

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Added on: 01/02/2024
Latin American and the Caribbean didn’t see quite the dynamic changes that came in 2022, when three countries decriminalized gay sex and one legalized same-sex marriage. But…

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Added on: 12/28/2023
12/27/2023
SÃO PAULO – Catholic members of LGBT+ communities in Latin America have welcomed a new Vatican declaration on the possibility of blessings for same-sex couples, including in…

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Added on: 12/28/2023
12/27/2023
According to a study from the National Human Rights Observatory (ObservaDH), 59,620 same-sex marriages were registered in South America’s largest country between 2013 and 2021, Agencia Brasil…

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Added on: 12/21/2023
“The love of God is for everyone, and the church has finally had the courage to accept that,” declares 25-year-old Daniella Cardozo from Rio de Janeiro. Bisexual,…

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Added on: 11/23/2023
On November 10-12, True Friendships Ministry (Portuguese: Ministério Amizades Verdadeiras) held its fifth national meeting, “Sexuality and the Church in the 21st Century,” at the Brooklin Seventh-day Adventist…

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Added on: 11/06/2023
11/05/2023
For a third of his life — from the age of 14 to 27 — Héder Bello, now 37, lived in purgatory. He was engaged in a fierce…

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Added on: 09/21/2023
09/20/2023
“I was diagnosed with HIV six years ago and it was a very tough time for me emotionally. It was very challenging, and I spent about a…

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Added on: 08/24/2023
Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that homophobic slurs are now punishable by prison, in a decision applauded by rights activists in a country with rampant violence against…

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Added on: 07/07/2023
07/06/2023
Lucas, a 34 year-old businessman from São Pauki, has felt out of place since childhood. A Catholic school pupil in his early years, he grew up in…

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Added on: 06/30/2023
In its International LGBT+ Pride Day survey on the representation that diversities have in the political sphere shows that more than half of the Argentines consulted are…

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Added on: 05/18/2023
International Day Against Homophobia. It is celebrated on Wednesday, May 17th, in remembrance of the date on which the term with the suffix ‘ism’ was disregarded, assuming…