It was Sunday around 22 pm, I was passing through the Largo do Arouche region and saw a crowd. I stopped and decided to find out what had happened. As I got closer I realized that there were around 500 young people, very young, between 16 and 20 years old. I was with a friend here from work, we were curious about everything, so we stopped some people doing almost a survey.
We discovered that most of them don't know about other clubs, just Freedom, which has a Sunday club out front until 22pm. They said that many entered the nightclub and then went to this square, but that others did not enter the club, they stayed directly in the square. They also said that they used to meet at the Monday event at the Tatuapé mall, but that the mall's management is gradually removing them and is managing to gradually reduce the number of people.
This crowd gathers there every Sunday, and I realized it's positive. There are many minors, there are people drinking straight wine, but there are few of them, of course there are mariconas taking advantage of young people, there is everything, but I think the majority are well behaved. There is also a police station very present just a few meters away with a military police trailer that monitors the entire situation.
This is a very democratic area of the city, just cross the street and be on the "little beach", four bars for slightly more adult gays, probably 40 to 50, it was full too, people are standing in front of the bars, because tables fill up quickly. And if you walk a few more blocks there is also the new bar for bears (furry gays), it is so crowded that almost no cars can pass on the street.
We realize that these young people are already born into a better world, a world where mothers are beesha women or sympathizers with gay friends. It seems that family acceptance for them is no longer the taboo it was in my time, an uncertainty that led many gays to leave home or live in the closet in great fear.
These gays are born into a homophobic world, of course, but into a world in which statements like that of "Bolsonaro" are seen as ignorant and retrogressive. I believe that if this statement occurred in the 80s or 90s, it would be seen with a certain naturalness by society, today the vast majority sees it as absurd.
These gays are also born with a much smaller fear of hiv, they didn't see Cazuza on the cover of Veja with the title "CAZUZA AN AIDS VICTIM WHO AGONS IN A PUBLIC SQUARE" and they think that this disease is just diabetes, and not like diabetes. fatal gay plague that was seen in the 80s/90s.
They haven't seen gay kisses on TV yet, but they've seen a lot of gay characters on soap operas. I was afraid of being like Vera Verão, she was my only reference when I was 10 years old. In the 80s we were still controversial about the kiss between a black woman and a white man, it was in the soap opera Corpo a Corpo, the actress Zezé Mota was the victim of prejudice on the street for kissing the actor Marcos Paulo. Who knows, maybe one of these new gays from Largo do Arouche Square will make a blog post in the future commenting on the first gay kiss and the many that were censored.
My conclusion is that no one holds this new generation back, they will not accept the impositions that we accept and will truly free the world from prejudice.
