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Title: BRAZIL: Carnival, a Complex Annual Revolution for Women, Gays
Post by: Shana A on February 19, 2010, 07:54:45 AM
Post by: Shana A on February 19, 2010, 07:54:45 AM
BRAZIL: Carnival, a Complex Annual Revolution for Women, Gays
By Mario Osava
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50381 (http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50381)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 18 , 2010 (IPS) - Fátima Oliveira, one of Brazil's few black women doctors, always goes to "the best carnival," in Sabará, a city of 130,000 people in the state of Minas Gerais, where "men dress up as women" at a celebration that is "very informal, very local, with few tourists."
Cross-dressers appear regularly at the many and varied carnivals in Brazil, but particularly in Sabará, in the southeast of the country, said Oliveira, who is a member of the advisory board of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network, and ex president of Brazil's National Feminist Network for Health and Sexual and Reproductive Rights.
By Mario Osava
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50381 (http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50381)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 18 , 2010 (IPS) - Fátima Oliveira, one of Brazil's few black women doctors, always goes to "the best carnival," in Sabará, a city of 130,000 people in the state of Minas Gerais, where "men dress up as women" at a celebration that is "very informal, very local, with few tourists."
Cross-dressers appear regularly at the many and varied carnivals in Brazil, but particularly in Sabará, in the southeast of the country, said Oliveira, who is a member of the advisory board of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network, and ex president of Brazil's National Feminist Network for Health and Sexual and Reproductive Rights.