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- ↑ Parker, Richard Guy (1999). Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil. Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1136669958. OCLC 38765158.
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- ↑ Editorial Board of Global Public Health, Taylor & Francis online web site (accessed 27 September 2014).
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