São paulo 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 metropolis, São Paulo, to celebrate diversity, admire , 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 1.7 miles of the avenue, drawing immense 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 powerful political message, the 2024 parade’s slogan declared: “Enough Negligence and Setbacks in the Legislature: Vote Consci
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“Never ever apolozie for who you love, take pride on who you are” this statement is so true, and when you are surrounded by postive people, who make you beliave in your stregth, you will begin relying more on this statment.
The same scenerio and postive vibes can be seen and felt at Sao Paulo LGBTQ pride parade. Where you can find you inner soul, harmony of mind, and can observe why you need to grab time out of your engaged world, by simply staying favor who you are. Free heart. Boundless human.
You can see those free souls every year in Sao Paulo where annual LGBTQ pride parade held. It is an annual gay pride march that takes place in Avenida Paulista, in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, since 1997. The 2006 parade was considered the biggest pride parade in the world, at the second it got recorded in Guinness Book of World Records. In 2010, the city hall of Sao Paulo invested R$ 1 million reais in the procession. The event is the second largest of the city and also selected as the optimal in the world by a renowned magazine.
The Pride parade is organized by the APOGLBT, Associacao da Parada do Orgulho de Gays, Lesbicas, Bissexuais e Travestis e Transexuais, since its foun
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 celebration parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The annual event along Sao Paulo’s main thoroughfare is among the biggest gay pride celebrations in the society, attracting thousands of people to rejoice the sexual diversity in a nation synonymous with avenue partying but where violence and discrimination against members of the LGBTQ society has surged in recent years.
While apparel is mostly optional, this year organizers made a extraordinary appeal for participants to wear grassy 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 help our flag and to show that Brazil will be better, it will be queer, butch, transvestite,” Erika Hilton, who in 2022 became one of two openly trans people elected to Brazil’s congress, told a cheering crowd of revelers.
Although Brazil has pioneered LGBTQ rights in Latin America — transsexual
Everything you need to realize about attending the Sao Paulo Pride Parade, 2025
Updated: Jun 16
Launched in 1997 by the Associação da Parada do Orgulho GLBT de São Paulo (APOGLBT-SP), the Sao Paulo Identity Parade has grown from a grassroots event to one of the largest pride events in the world. With annual attendance in Sao Paulo often exceeding 3 million people, and in some years reportedly nearing 5 million, it has become both a cultural phenomenon and a political statement. The parade combines celebration and protest, highlighting both the achievements of the Gay community and the challenges still faced in Brazil and beyond.
In 2024, the theme “Vote with Pride – for a Brazil without LGBTphobia” called attention to the importance of political engagement and the need for inclusive policies in a region where violence and discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals endure pressing issues.
When & where is the Sao Paulo Pride Parade in 2025?
The São Paulo Pride Procession is traditionally held on a Sunday in June, aligning with LGBTQ+ Celebration Month in Brazil and globally, and typically scheduled near International Pride Daytime, which is observed on June 28.
In 2025,