(Sao Paulo) - Hundreds of thousands of gay, lesbian and transvestites have taken part in a vast Gay Pride parade in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. Organisers said the number of people taking part exceeded last year's record of 2.5 million marchers. The parade is said to be the largest of its kind in the world. Costumes, floats and music are dominating, but activists say they also have a serious message, calling for a world without discrimination. According to activists, between 1980 and 2006 some 2,680 gay people were murdered in Brazil, the majority thought to have been killed because of their sexuality. Gay Pride is taking place just days after around one million Evangelical Christians held their annual demonstration in Sao Paulo, during which one minister addressing the crowd linked homosexuality with Satanism.
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