A personal selection of photographs with their stories.

145. Gay Pride

OCTOBER 2007: Gay Pride

Proud to be bad. That might be the theme of this contestant of the Gay Pride Parade (Orgulho Gay in Portuguese) in Rio de Janeiro in October 2007. Bad, because of the association with his outfit, this doesn’t need to be a reflection of his personal character. It was by surprise that our group students from Belo Horizonte witnessed the Parade. None of us had known it before. Many tourists were there, aiming their digital cameras at the contestants. Apparently, they didn’t object to be photographed. Some of them even tried to draw attention of the photographers, like this person. He was even posing for them. When you look at his face, it appears that he had grown in his role as a devil. His devilish act.

© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2007, 2015

SÃO PAULO (SP)

May 2005. I was invited by a friend to visit her and her family in Guarulhos, a city close to São Paulo.
Most foreigners know Guarulhos for its international airport.
I got to know a bit more of São Paulo, a little of Santos and São Vicente.
One the final day, my friend and her family were organizing a workshop for those who were interested to make eye masks, for the Gay Pride that was held that day. I could not help them, I took the opportunity to enter the famous MASP Museum, and to discover the long Avenida Paulista, flanked by a large number of skyscrapers.
The picture shows one of the skyscrapers, and mirrors the skyscrapers and the other side of the avenida.

Camera SONY DSC-P73 f/5.6, 1/125 sec. ISO-100