First, I make it clear that I respect people's wishes not to go to gay parades (even because São Paulo doesn't accommodate anyone else), but I don't agree with people being against the parade, and as a wise activist said, the result is for the whole community, not just for those who fight and participate.
The arguments against it are flawed, the first is that it is not political, that it is a carnival. Regarding this, I call on these people to make the parade political, this website has already counted more than 200 people saying this in the comments, so it's so simple, let's get together, here alone we would have about 200, and make the parade political? Let's go with posters, banners, paint ourselves pink, go on a hunger strike, sing against homophobia and who knows what else? What do you think? Let's go? So it becomes political! It's that thing, only speak badly if you can do better, if you're not going to do anything, let whoever wants to do it the way they think is best.
Another argument is that people have sex in parades, honestly, I must be one of the people who has been to parades the most in this country, in a single year I have been to more than twenty. I must have already counted around 60 stops, I'm going there before I have them available, and I can say that I've never seen a single person having sex at a stop. At the stops outside the city of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, they are calmer for me, as I'm not responsible for a threesome alone and I've even gone looking for a hookup and didn't find one, I've even gone under several flags and never seen a hookup. , I really didn't find anything. Obviously there are a lot of kisses, close and sensual, let's say, but heterosexuals do this all year round and everywhere, let's face it, the problem is that homophobes (even gays) are not used to seeing men kissing on the street, and for them That's enough as sex and that's why for them it's indecent exposure.
Another is that the parade is useless, that it only serves gay establishments to promote themselves. Wrong! Even if the parade was just a celebration, it would already be valid for us gays. We are discriminated against and we hide 364 days of the year, this is the only day of the year, it is the day we are not ashamed of being gay, we are not ashamed to show affection for someone of our same sex, it is a day that has become a right and that we will never discard, I simply don't have the courage to walk hand in hand, or to kiss my boyfriend on Avenida Paulista outside of the parade day, I congratulate those who do, but I don't like doing this and having people look at me crookedly and bothering others people.
Finally, I just remember that when we are adding three million on Avenida Paulista, the eyes of politicians grow, and some of them must think that if they do not approve certain laws, they could lose part of these three million votes, this alone would be enough, but the parade it still does much more, who has never seen entire families at the parade, with children? These children grow up knowing that we are natural, that we are not freaks. But the event is so cool and is expected by so many people for that reason alone, it's worth it, it must be well managed so that it is political, commercially profitable for the community, educational and commemorative.
