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Brazilians will certainly show you what a good time looks like, but it is the rainforest and that will leave you dumbstruck. Discover both metropolis and mangrove within our rundown of gay Brazil and our 10 favourite Brazilian wonders. One of the more liberal countries in Latin America, Brazil can be a haven for the gay community. To find our people, big cities are of course the best bet, with Rio, São Paulo and, to a lesser extent, Salvador home to lively gay communities and a strong stock of gay bars, clubs and cafés.

For the best experience using our website, we recommend upgrading your browser to a newer version or switching to a supported browser. More Information. Little more than a month removed from the election of Jair Bolsonaro—who, in addition to being homophobic and misogynist, has adopted openly racist positions— Words Without Borders brings you this issue of Afro-Brazilian writing. Black people constitute a majority of the population in the region, which has long been ridiculed by some people in the southeastern and southern parts of the country, which tend to be whiter and wealthier.

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Yet their visibility in public debate has grown radically in recent years with younger activists beginning to occupy spaces in media, academia and the arts. Lélia Gonzalez has become a major point of reference for this new generation, and not only because of her pioneering position as a black woman intellectual in the 70s and 80s, or the example set by her political commitments and engagements. It is also because her thought foreshadowed contemporary debates concerning race relations in Brazil and beyond. She drew both from Marxism, in order to understand the implantation and development of capitalism in the colonial Americas, and Lacanian psychoanalysis, to interpret a national unconscious revealed in cultural and linguistic elements imprinted by colonialism and the disavowal of African and indigenous origins.