Lampião da Esquina Lighting Up Brazilian Press

Inspired by the US paper Gay Sunshine in April of 1978 appeared in Brazil during the dictatorship the newspaper O Lampião depicting the point of view of gays on various issues including sexuality A group of journalists and writers from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo joined the project fueling a publication that paved the way for the press at the time addressing controversial issues at the period such as racism abortion drugs and prostitution