NEWS: Brazil Hosts Enormous Gay Pride Parade

CULTURE: Brazil Hosts Enormous Gay Pride Parade

Blowing away all previous gay pride events, like ever, Brazil’s Sao Paulo Gay Pride Parade managed to draw an incredible crowd of over 3 million party-people yesterday. According to AP writer Stan Lehman:

Sorry America and Europe, you just can’t compete with that Brazilian pride. A friend of mine attended the LA parade this past weekend and he mentioned that the turnout kind of sucked. Regardless, it’s clearly a great thing to generate such a huge turnout for an event where the goal, says organizer Nelson Matias Pereira, is to create a “world where racism, sexism and homophobia, in all their forms, no longer exist.”

Saying to hell with stereotypes, there were apparently lots of “trucks blasting disco and electronic music” and the atmosphere was that of an all around kick-ass party. Here’s some video footage shot by the lovely Jezel:



You'd better believe those Brazilians can shake it. Cheers to the world for being cool for a day.

dats alotta gayz

and also keep on keeping on fellas

mmhmm.

I'm just here for the photos of hot Brazilian lesbians. come on, people.

pss, is "Sao Paulo". But the parade was pretty cool indeed

They know how to party in Brazil. I think if they had a parade for people who liked purple grasshoppers they could probably get around 2 million people to come out to party.

and people who support equality, let us not forget.

3 million people? That's unfathomable.

Ah, thanks. Fixed it.

i live in LA and didn't even know there was a gay pride parade here this weekend.

Wow. All I can say is wow. What the hell are the odds...

I edited the story; you now get credit. That'll teach me to not look at who posts on youtube. Thanks for the footage, btw.

Joan Jett played a show for it.

My mom lived in Brazil when she was younger, and from what I understand, Brazilians will use any excuse to go out and party in the streets.

amazing. i absolutely love it!! i cant wait for nyc or toronto pride, havent decided which one im going to yet. maybe next year its time to go to brazil

You know, I was kinda hoping that every weekend in Sao Paulo involved around 3 million scantily clad party people getting their gay-friendly groove on.

Thanks for crushing my dreams. Or limiting them by approximately 1/52nd.

my girlfriend is in SP right now. she screwed up and made other plans before she realized which weekend it was but she said it was pretty insane from what she did see. she also said to me yesterday that all the bars and clubs have had an unusually eclectic musical selection recently...wonder if that is partially why.