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Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hehe... For a country that’s 75% Roman Catholic, the church is losing out to gay big spenders! Lovely!

Jaiyant Cavale

Jaiyant Cavale — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

He he he..

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Is this gay parade giving competition to the Mardi Gras in Rio?

Jaiyant Cavale

Jaiyant Cavale — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

There was a time when I used to watch the Mardi Gras in Rio on FTV.

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The Gay Parade in Sao Paulo is way bigger than Carnaval.

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

But the thing with Mardi Gras in Rio is that Carnaval happens in all cities in the same time, so Mardi Gras seems to be bigger.

Jaiyant Cavale

Jaiyant Cavale — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Things seem very clear here. The governmental support, politicians support, security and business arrangements for the gay parade is because the gay people spend more! Because they don’t have conventional families, they have more money to spend. And because they feel empty due to loneliness or being ostracized, they fill the vacuum with designer brands. And when all that generates revenue and tourism cash, you would definitely find support for such an event. Oh yeah, respect could always be purchased with money.

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

You are absolutely right.

Asmita

Asmita — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Totally agree with you here dude... If only we could find a similar environment for the gay community in India, we’d truly become a the open and liberal society that we claim to be!!

Vijay

Vijay — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Indeed its a big big event for Brazil and the good thing is now evryone recognising it”Official data estimate that over 300 thousand tourists from around Brazil came to celebrate the sexual diversity in the largest metropolis in the country. And not only from Brazil, because this year who tried to travel from New York to Sao Paulo in that week almost couldn’t because all flights were full.”

the respose is super!

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It’s too big and the city transform itself to celebrate all gay things! LOL!

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Well, the Catholic church isn’t really openly against homosexuality, just the same-sex marriage.

The atmosphere just outside the Vatican is also rather ’gay.’ Hehe...

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Do you want to know something funny?

Three days after the gay parade, there was a pentecostal parade, but a lot of tourists didn’t know that and thought that all that crazy Christians were gay! LOL!

The Catholic Church doesn’t support the same-sex marriage indeed and now is time to other fun fact: the gay parade happened in a Catholic holiday!

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Sorry, it was 3 days before!

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

That’s ok, I guess. I cannot think of a recent instance where the Catholic church had shown rigid fundamentalist views.

Catholics aren’t punished harshly, just excommunicated, and that, in itself, does not really mean anything! LOL

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Without gays, what the Catholic Church and Military would do? Recruit rabbits and monkeys?

Jaiyant Cavale

Jaiyant Cavale — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Without gays the church and army would recruit radicals.

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hehe...

Madhuri Katti

Madhuri Katti — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Celso,

You are a great combination of sociologist and sociopath!

Yes, the push of globalisation is to make everyone consumers above everything else. It wants turn the world in to a big carnival...lets all have fun and feel good...no need to worry about anything...you can buy your own limelight! These lights are blinding everyone...they lure you to look away from darkness and dance away rest of your life!

No one seems to be worried about pocket-pinch either...have money do spend...self is god...so reach god by pampering self...parade the self...

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you! And let’s go to an ego celebration!

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t think I’ll be comfortable in something like an all-out celebration and throwing all caution to the wind.

Maybe when I was younger...

But the only ’parades’ I joined back in college were street protests! LOL

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

At least the cops were hot?

Madhuri Katti

Madhuri Katti — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Grace and Celso...

Maybe people like to parade and move together so market forces are using mass psychology...obviously political parades will go against them, so they are creating collective amnesia about reality and creating an illusion of celebration. But I wonder are all these people truly happy? Doesn’t this celebration and happiness look imposed?

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t believe in happiness because it seems to be another product or an illusion like God (all 300). Therefore, nobody can be really happy, only have moments of contentment.

Consumerism, drugs, alcohol, sex, cigars, everything can be used to dissimulate our pain and distance ourselves from reality.

Vijay

Vijay — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

ITs all ”on” parade,but there are parades in Brazil,where Sambha dancers also takes part and most of the people in the gathering takes part with all clothes off.

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Get drunk and then get naked is a rule here!

Vijay

Vijay — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Is it a condition?What about the teetotlers.Better if doing some thing with full conciousness.There are so many beaches in Brazil where cloths are not allowed.You can enter with your natural suit.people laugh when they see somebody with cloths.

Vijay

Vijay — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

All kind of happiness are momentrily,enjoy whatever moments you gets in life to enjoy.See these terrorist are planting bombs everywhere and its good if you gets killed by a sexbomb.

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

LOL! Ata boy! LOL!

Jaiyant Cavale

Jaiyant Cavale — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Behind all these parades and explicit consumerism, gay people world wide are subjected to humiliation and subjugation. In some cases, they are even legally implicated in many countries. And how can we forget all the executions in Iran and elsewhere in the radical heartland. gay boys.. 12/13 year olds.. are hung in public in Iran.

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The gay parades are a new kind of protest. Dancing and singing may not seem to be efficient, but it is.

Jayashree

Jayashree — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Finally, you wrote about the parade! I asked you loads about it one time before, but you were in a mad mood and would only tell me its pink, lol.

So if people recognise gay parades as a way of making the country more money, would gayism become more acceptable? Perhaps even the eunuchs of India might be treated better and even get jobs if tourists started coming here to check them out.

And if only the guy with the Green Fairy wasn’t gay..sigh..even if he does look like a mer-person.

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

”First I was afraid

I was petrified

Kept thinking I could never live

without you by my side

But I spent so many nights

thinking how you did me wrong

I grew strong

I learned how to carry on...”

Oh yeah, he is! LOL! Maybe he has a twin brother!

Jayashree

Jayashree — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

LOL! That songs sooooo gay!

And you’re getting me that twin, pls pretty pls!

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Sure, let me find him! But if he is gay too?

Jayashree

Jayashree — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

You really know how to make a girl cry...sniff :(

Oscar

Oscar — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

So, are you saying idf I could get enough gays to immigrate to Mexico, we could get the ball rolling and make a change? Let’s see, lets weigh the two: drug dealers, poverty, decapitations and kidnapping on one hand vs snazzy clothes, great fashion, economic boom, big ass party parades, and great hairdresses...hmmmm send them in.. I will sponser their immigration filings..

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Oscar, be careful, wasn’t you that said ”my god-like body”? If I send, you’d be targeted! Just kidding.

This gay parade is different because it started as something hated by society and then became bigger than anyone could imagine (parents take their kids to see this gay carnaval) and due to the fact that is very profitable now is something desirable in the city.

Oscar

Oscar — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I know, I may be putting my God-like body at risk and my wife at war, POR LA PATRIA, send them in...

Celso Camargo

Celso Camargo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Ok, in the next rainbow, thousands will be send, singing and dancing Madonna, Cher, and ready to spend USD 500 per day!

Oscar

Oscar — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent!!!! I knew I could count on you... I am ready to sing ”I will Survive”, with this spectacular news!