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    Nearly 700,000 attend gay pride parade in Rio

    RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Authorities in Brazil say nearly 700,000 people have celebrated in a gay pride parade at Copacabana beach

    Many participants waved rainbow flags and wore lavish Carnival costumes as loud music blasted from more than 15 sound trucks in Sunday's festivities.

    Gay men, lesbians and cross-dressers danced and cheered to demands that Brazil enact more laws against homophobia in Latin America's biggest nation.

    Organizers had hoped for nearly 1.5 million people at the 16th annual parade, but Rio de Janeiro police tell the newspaper the O Globo and other local media that about 700,000 were present.

     

    226 comments

    • Josey Wales  •  7 mths ago
      live and let live
    • Simba  •  7 mths ago
      Explain to me why you need to parade around seeking acceptance.
      --------
      Same thing with televised Religious shows.
      Explain to me why you have to push your views all over the airwaves.
      Clean up you own backyard.
    • Simba  •  7 mths ago
      Ross, Sodom was a place of heterosexuals.
      You know, the same group that crucified Jesus.
    • Simba  •  7 mths ago
      For true perversion.
      Google: heterosexual porn.
      You people are nasty.
    • chitos  •  7 mths ago
      you know of course women down there are gorgeous! (but if you can get fooled here ?** YOU DON'T STAND A CHANCE DOWN THERE!**
      • David 7 mths ago
        LOL!!!!!
      • Kevin 7 mths ago
        ok, best one today!!!
    • Bigenuff100  •  7 mths ago
      Just so you all know, 700,000 people and most of them were not Gay. But it doesn't mean they can't go to a party. I know, I was there, and I am not Gay.
    • dan020350  •  7 mths ago
      Should we blame disney like that politician said. Or should we just blame ourselves that we were not teachers on teaching them what is media, advertisements, the mind and such.
    • valleymex  •  7 mths ago
      ok
    • dan020350  •  7 mths ago
      Should we blame disney like that politician said. Or should we just blame ourselves that we were not teachers on teaching them what is media, advertisements, the mind and such.
    • Robertinho  •  7 mths ago
      Parada da Florminense ( Fluminense)
      • Roman 7 mths ago
        Parata dei finocchi
    • chitos  •  7 mths ago
      life is such a short ride i for one refuse to hate you for your sexual preferences! ( NOW IF YOU KILL? IN THE NAME OF ALLAH'S little #$%$ MOHAMMAD!** then you and I have a pig roast to go to!.**
    • FOX MULDER  •  7 mths ago
      come one ...come all...see the freaks of nature in the middle of their mating dance
      • Roman 7 mths ago
        Just don't forget to bring the gas masks
    • CubnKira  •  7 mths ago
      Wonder how many will be marching in Iran? They claim they have no gays.
      • JohnnyG 7 mths ago
        I bet they're too scared to march, they'll be hanged. 99% of them are gays. They just won't admit it.
    • bobx  •  7 mths ago
      We need more gays....more women for the rest of us
      • GBQ13-4 7 mths ago
        Hopefully the women will NOT be GAY!
    • joe  •  7 mths ago
      the million queen march
    • FOX MULDER  •  7 mths ago
      let's all get dressed up real pretty and dance around the street...we're queer, we're here and we are pretty
    • Anthony  •  7 mths ago
      homosexuality is not natural for the human species. And sorry if it is not politically correct, but it is NOT a natural part of reproduction nor is it healthy for either party involved. If a person chooses to live that way then more power to them but there will be reprocussions from it. just look around you and anyone can see it. Maybe it should be kept in the closet where no one will have to suffer from it.
    • J Ramsey  •  7 mths ago
      This is absolute truth that evolution does not exist, if it did these guys would go extinct not multiply
    • truth  •  7 mths ago
      700 thousands ..more than the tea party rally....was MARCUS Bachmann there?
    • dd  •  7 mths ago
      brazil will be another sadam and gamora for GOD to cleanse, as you will see ,but dont look back
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