Maria Bethânia Viana Teles Veloso is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. Born in Santo Amaro, Bahia, she started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opinião" ("Opinion"), she is "The Queen of Brazilian Music". Due to its popularity, with performances all over the country, and the popularity of her 1965 single "Carcará", the artist became a star in Brazil.
The Social Christian Party was a Christian-conservative political party in Brazil.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Brazil rank among the highest in the world. Same-sex couples in Brazil have enjoyed the same rights guaranteed to heterosexual ones since 16 May 2013, including marriage and adoption. On June 13, 2019, the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is a crime akin to racism.
The term travesti is used in Latin America to designate people who were assigned male at birth and develop a feminine gender identity. Other terms have been invented and are used in South America in an attempt to further distinguish it from cross-dressing, drag, and pathologizing connotations. In Spain, the term was used in a similar way during the Franco era, but it was replaced with the advent of the medical model of transsexuality in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in order to rule out negative stereotypes. The arrival of these concepts occurred later in Latin America than in Europe, so the concept of travesti lasted, with various connotations.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights are liberal in Bahia. Homosexuality and same-sex marriage are legal in the state.
Larissa de Macedo Machado, known professionally as Anitta, is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and occasional television host. She has been referred to as the "Queen of Brazilian Pop". She has received numerous accolades, including four Latin American Music Awards, three MTV Music Video Awards, eight MTV Europe Music Awards, and nominations for a Grammy Award and eight Latin Grammy Awards.
Tranny Fag is a 2018 Brazilian documentary film directed by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman about Linn da Quebrada, a travesti Brazilian musician and activist whose tactics for confronting homophobia and transphobia include radical performance art, film, and music.
Daniel Garcia Felicione Napoleão, known professionally as Gloria Groove, is a Brazilian singer, rapper, songwriter, actor, voice actor, and drag queen. Garcia's singing career began when he was 7 years old, as a member of children's musical group Turma do Balão Mágico. During his childhood, Groove starred in the RecordTV telenovela Savage, and began work as a voice actor. After a period working in theatre as a teenager, Garcia adopted the drag persona "Gloria Groove" in 2014. Two years later, he started gaining prominence by appearing in the TV Globo reality show Amor & Sexo.
Viviane de Queiroz Pereira, known professionally as Pocah and formerly MC Pocahontas, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter.
Erika Santos Silva, known as Erika Hilton, is a Brazilian politician and activist for black and LGBT rights. Hilton studied teaching and gerontology before entering politics.
Alexya Lucas Evangelista Salvador is a Brazilian teacher and reverend. She was ordained in 2019, becoming the first transgender reverend in Latin America. She was additionally the first trans woman to adopt a child in Brazil.
Gender-neutral language in Portuguese is a recent strand of demands for greater gender equality and social inclusion between men, women and non-binary individuals. It can be divided into inclusive or non-sexist language, and non-binary or neuter language or neolanguage. Inclusive language aims to use existing words to include all genders, while neuter language uses new or modified words to accomplish this.
Fernanda Andrielli Nascimento Dos Santos, known professionally as MC Dricka, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter whose music consists mostly of the dirty funk genre.
Linda Brasil Azevedo Santos is a teacher, LGBT rights activist, and politician who became the first trans woman elected to a parliamentary position in the state of Sergipe, Brazil. She was elected in 2020 as a member of the Socialism and Liberty Party.
Dodi Tavares Borges Leal is an academic, performer and trans rights activist who, is a professor in performing arts at the Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB) and an associate researcher at the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC). Her 2018 appointment at UFSB meant that she was the first transgender arts professor to take up a permanent employment in public higher education in the world.
Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama, commonly known as Vasco da Gama or simply Vasco, is a women's association football club based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1987, the team has been inactive for periods prior to its most recent reinstatement in 2016. The team is affiliated with Federação de Futebol do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and play their home games at São Januário. The team colors, reflected in their logo and uniform, are white and black. They play in the third tier of women's football in Brazil, the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino Série A3, and in the Campeonato Carioca de Futebol Feminino, the traditional in-state competition.
Paula Beatriz de Souza Cruz is an educator, school principal and Brazilian activist for the rights of the LGBTQ population. She is responsible for the administration of the Santa Rosa de Lima State School, in Capão Redondo, in the South Zone of São Paulo, a position she has held since 2013.
Transgender history in Brazil comprises the history of transgender people in Brazil and their struggles and organization from the pre-colonial period to the modern day. Before Brazil's colonization, indigenous peoples respected various transmasculine and transfeminine third genders; colonization included public executions of trans people and the systematic imposition of the Western gender binary. In the late 1800s, there were repeated arrests of black travestis and occasional sensationalized news reports of travestis. By the 1920s there were popular drag queens and in the 1950s travestis became popular stars in the theater and revue shows. From the 1960s onward, LGBT periodicals publicly discussed the issues facing travestis and transsexuals.
Renata Carvalho is a Brazilian actress, playwright and theater director. She is from the city of Santos in São Paulo and began her career in the 1990s. She is trained in social sciences, and has dubbed herself a transpologist, a combination of the terms transgender and anthropologist to describe her work on trans experiences and bodies.
