Editing Queer studies (section)

===Brazil===
At [[Federal University of Minas Gerais|Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais]] (UFMG) in Brazil, there are many initiatives on Queer Studies. UFMG offers a multidisciplinary program on Gender and Sexuality for undergrad students: "Formação Transversal em Gênero e Sexualidade: Perspective Queer/LGBTI" ([https://www.ufmg.br/prograd/arquivos/docs/Cata%CC%81logo%20-%20Formac%CC%A7o%CC%83es%20Transversais%20-%202018-02.pdf https://www.ufmg.br/prograd/]). In its Faculty of Law, ranked amongst the best in the country, Marcelo Maciel Ramos established in 2014 ''Diverso UFMG - Legal Division of Gender and Sexual Diversity'' ([http://www.diversoufmg.com www.diversoufmg.com]) and a study group on Gender, Sexuality and Law, which is now led also by Pedro Nicoli. Diverso UFMG organizes since 2016 the Congress of Gender and Sexual Diversity (Congresso de Diversidade Sexual e de Gênero: {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20210506043807/http://www.congressodiverso.com/ www.congressodiverso.com]}}) that has become one of the biggest and most important academic events on Women and LGBT studies in Brazil. At the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Marco Aurélio Máximo Prado has been running since 2007 Nuh UFMG (Human Rights and LGBT Citizenship Division), a successful initiative on LGBT studies. Scholars who focus on queer studies at other universities in Brazil include [[Luiz Mott]] and [[Moisés Lino e Silva]], among others who write on [[LGBT rights in Brazil]] and on [[LGBT history in Brazil]].