São Paulo Gay Pride Parade
São Paulo Gay Pride Parade 2008.
Frequency	Anually
Location	São Paulo, Brazil
First occurrence	1997
Last occurrence	June 11-14, 2009
Participants	Over 3 million

São Paulo LGBT Pride Parade (Portuguese: Parada do Orgulho LGBT de São Paulo) is an annual gay pride parade that happens in Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil, since 1997. In 2006, it was considered the biggest pride parade of the world by the Guinness Book of World Records. According to the Military Police of the State of São Paulo, 2,5 million people took part on the event that year.

Contents 1 Participants 2 Slogans 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Participants

The first parade gathered around 2,000 participants, according to the Military Police. The ninth parade gathered over 2,5 million people according to the police and 3 million according to the organizers. The MP, which traditionally counts the number of participants at major public events, does not release their estimates for attendance at the parade since then, which caused the omission of the Parade from the 2008 issue of Guinness that requires official sources for records regarding attendance at events. According to the police, it would be impossible to count the number of people attending an event with a "floating population". There has been controversy about the exact number of participants.

Year	Participants
	Organizers	Military Police
1997	–	2,000
1998	–	8,000
1999	–	35,000
2000	120,000	100,000
2001	–	200,000
2002	700,000	400,000
2003	1,000,000	800,000
2004	1,800,000	1,500,000
2005	2,500,000	1,800,000
2006	3,000,000	2,500,000
2007	3,500,000	–
2008	3,400,000	–
2009	3,100,000	–

[edit] Slogans

• 1997 - "We are many, we are in every occupation"
• 1998 - "The rights of gays, lesbians and transvestites are human rights"
• 1999 - "Gay pride in Brazil, on the way of the year 2000"
• 2000 - "Celebrating the pride of living diversity"
• 2001 - "Embracing diversity"
• 2002 - "Educating for diversity"
• 2003 - "Building homosexual policies"
• 2004 - "We have family and pride"
• 2005 - "Civil partnership now. Equal rights! Neither more nor less"
• 2006 - "Homophobia is a crime! Sexual rights are human rights"
• 2007 - "For a world without racism, machismo and homophobia"
• 2008 - "Homophobia kills! For a secular state de facto"
• 2009 - "No homophobia, more citizenship - For the isonomy of rights!"

[edit] References

• "Parada Gay bate recorde, dizem organizadores"
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[edit] See also

• Gay pride
• Gay pride parade

[edit] External links

Wikinews has related news: Huge Gay Pride parade held in Brazil

• Official website of the São Paulo Gay Pride Parade organization (Portuguese)
• Flats for rent in Gay Parade area
• About the São Paulo Gay Pride at BBC.co.uk

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