Two million celebrate Pride in Brazil

[struggle4progress]

Keith McDonnell, Gay.com U.K.
published Tuesday, May 31, 2005

An estimated 2 million LGBT people and their supporters converged on Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, on Sunday to celebrate Gay Pride and call on the government to introduce legislation to recognize civil unions between people of the same sex.

Organizers say that the ninth annual Sao Paulo Gay Parade, which took place on the Avienda Paulista, was possibly the largest Pride event the world has ever seen.

Police say that last year's event drew about 1.5 million revelers, almost half a million fewer than this year's event, which included around 700,000 tourists from other Brazilian cities and farther. <snip>

The main theme of the parade was the legalization of civil unions throughout Brazil, as they are currently only recognized in the country's most southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. <snip>

http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2005/05/31/3

[Quetzal]

1. here is a blog with pictures of the event

http://madeinbrazil.typepad.com/madeinbrazil/2005/05/ive_got_my_prid.html

And more photos

http://www.thomaslockehobbs.com/2005_05_29_archive.html#111746869943998846