Editing Pride parade (section)

====Brazil====
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[[File:Bandeira LGBT no Congresso Nacional.jpg|thumb| LGBT flag extended in the Parliament of [[Brazil]]]]
[[File:Gay Beach-Ipanema-Rio de Janeiro Brazil.jpg|thumb| Gay friendly beach in [[Rio de Janeiro]]]]
{{Main|LGBT rights in Brazil}}
The [[São Paulo Gay Pride Parade]] happens in [[Paulista Avenue]], in the city of [[São Paulo]], since 1997. The 2006 parade was named the biggest pride parade of the world at the time by ''[[Guinness World Records]]''; it typically rivals the [[New York City Pride March]] as the largest pride parade in the world.<ref name="NYCWorld'sLargestPrideParade"/> In 2010, the city hall of São Paulo invested R$1 million in the parade.

The Pride Parade is heavily supported by the federal government as well as by the Governor of São Paulo, the event counts with a solid security plan, many politicians show up to open the main event and the government not rarely parades with a float with politicians on top of it. In the Pride the city usually receives about 400,000 tourists and moves between R$180 million and R$190 million.

The Pride and its associated events are organized by the ''Associação da Parada do Orgulho de Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais e Travestis e Transsexuais'', since its foundation in 1999. The march is the event's main activity and the one that draws the biggest attention to the press, the Brazilian authorities, and the hundreds of thousands of curious people that line themselves along the parade's route. In 2009, 3.2 million people attended the 13th annual Gay Pride Parade.

The second biggest Pride Parade in Brazil is [[Rio de Janeiro]] Gay Pride Parade, numbering about 2 million people, traditionally taking place in [[Zona Sul]] or Rio's most affluent neighborhoods between the city center and the world-famous oceanic beaches, which usually happens in the second part of the year, when it is winter or spring in the [[Southern Hemisphere]], generally characterizing milder weather for Rio de Janeiro (about 15[[Celsius|°C]] in difference), except for occasional stormy cold fronts. The Rio de Janeiro Gay Pride Parade and its associated events are organized by the NGO Arco-Íris ([[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] for ''rainbow''). The group is one of the founders of the [[Associação Brasileira de Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais]] (Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transvestites (this word used as a synonym for transgender persons in Brazil) and Transsexuals). Other Pride Parades which happen in [[Greater Rio de Janeiro]] take place in [[Niterói]], Rio de Janeiro's ex-capital in the times when Rio was the Brazilian capital and a separated [[Federal District (Brazil)|Federal District]], and [[Nova Iguaçu]], where about 800,000 persons live and is located in the center of [[Baixada Fluminense]], which compose all northern suburban cities of Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area numbering 3.5 million people.

Other [[Southeast Region, Brazil|Southeastern Brazilian]] parades are held in [[Cabo Frio]] ([[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]]), [[Campinas]] ([[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]]), [[Vitória, Espírito Santo|Vitória]] (capital of [[Espírito Santo]]), and [[Belo Horizonte]] and [[Uberaba]] ([[Minas Gerais]]). [[South Region, Brazil|Southern Brazilian]] parades take place in [[Curitiba]], [[Londrina]], [[Florianópolis]], [[Porto Alegre]] and [[Pelotas]], and [[Center-West Region, Brazil|Center-Western]] ones happen in [[Campo Grande]], [[Cuiabá]], [[Goiânia]] and [[Brasília]]. Across [[Northeast Region, Brazil|Northeastern Brazil]], they are present in all capitals, namely, in [[Salvador, Bahia|Salvador]], [[Aracaju]], [[Maceió]], [[Recife]], [[João Pessoa, Paraíba|João Pessoa]], [[Natal, Rio Grande do Norte|Natal]], [[Fortaleza]], [[Teresina]] and [[São Luís, Maranhão|São Luís]], and also in [[Ceará]]'s [[Sertão|hinterland]] major urban center, [[Juazeiro do Norte]]. [[North Region, Brazil|Northern Brazilian]] parades are those from [[Belém]], [[Macapá]], [[Boa Vista, Roraima|Boa Vista]] and [[Manaus]].