Mato Grosso LGBTQIA+ Pride Parade

Mato Grosso LGBTQIA+ Pride Parade
21st LGBTQIA+ Mato Grosso Pride Parade in 2024
GenrePride parade
DateJune to December
LocationsCuiabá, Brazil
Inaugurated2003 (2003)
FoundersLivre-Mente
Organised byAPOLGBTQIA+MT
Websitewww.instagram.com/paradamt?igsh=dmlsMmZjNjA0bHhu

The Mato Grosso LGBTQIA+ Pride Parade (Brazilian Portuguese: Parada do Orgulho LGBTQIA+ de Mato Grosso) is an LGBTQ pride parade that has been held since 2003 in the city of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil. The event features participation from the LGBTQ community, allies, and other passersby, featuring political demands and artistic performances.[1] It is a mix of party and political demonstration, with participants generally carrying the rainbow flag, displaying body productions, affective practices and icons of music and pop culture, while at the same time demanding social rights, especially against homophobia and its criminalization, in favor of civil unions and same-sex marriage, an end to violence against the LGBTQ population, separation of religion and politics, non-standardization of the concept of family, among other demands.[2]: 185  Held on a weekday on important avenues in the city, it is one of the only parades in Brazilian capitals that is not held on a Sunday.[2]: 183  Currently, the Parade is organized by the LGBTQIA+ Pride Parade Association of Mato Grosso (APOLGBTQIA+MT).[3]

History

19th LGBTQIA+ Mato Grosso Pride Parade, in 2022.

The first edition of the Parade took place in 2003,[4] created by the first LGBTQ non-governmental organization in Mato Grosso, the Livre-Mente group.[5] Inspired by the growth of the São Paulo LGBTQ Pride Parade, the organizers chose to hold the Parade on a weekday so that it would become a speech for the city, not just for the LGBTQ population.[2]: 190  Since then, the event has taken place annually and has been organized by different organizations of the LGBTQ movement,[6] having not been held only in 2020 due to measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.[7]

The event usually begins with a gathering at Ipiranga Square, where, sometimes, evangelical groups schedule services in a bandstand on the same dates as the Parade,[8] in addition to there being one of the largest local evangelical churches nearby, which has already generated conflicts in some editions of the event.[9]: 111  After gathering, participants move on, following a route that passes through some of the city's main avenues.[9]: 113 

From the third edition of the Parade, in 2005, the organizers began to use themes in each edition, aiming to identify the inclusion of the fight for civil rights in the movement's agenda.[6]

The 2016 edition, whose slogan was "Citizenship is not a privilege" (Brazilian Portuguese: Cidadania não é privilégio), was led by travestis, drag queens, and cross-dressers, who chanted slogans or made political speeches in support of equality. Some of the actions carried out during the parade included: a call for "colored votes" for the upcoming municipal elections, that is, votes for candidates who support public policies for LGBT people; booing candidates and religious fundamentalist deputies and councilors, mentioned by name on sound trucks; and the parade's closing in front of Cuiabá City Hall with a "kissing ceremony," an invitation for participants to kiss their partners as a form of protest.[2]: 185 

In the 2017 edition, the event also featured a show by singer Ludmilla.[10][11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Parada do Orgulho LGBTQIA+ completa 20 anos em Mato Grosso com evento no sábado" [LGBTQIA+ Pride Parade celebrates its 20th anniversary in Mato Grosso with an event on Saturday]. Gazeta Digital (in Brazilian Portuguese). August 31, 2023. Retrieved October 25, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Silva, Marcos Aurélio da; Lopes, Moisés Alessandro de Souza (January 30, 2020). "Festa, política e o corpo na rua: Uma antropologia visual da Parada da Diversidade de Cuiabá nos 50 anos de Stonewall" [Party, politics, and the body in the street: A visual anthropology of the Cuiabá Pride Parade on the 50th anniversary of Stonewall]. Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Homocultura (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2 (7). doi:10.31560/2595-3206.2019.7.10116.
  3. ↑ "20ª edição da Parada do Orgulho LGBTQIA+ acontece neste sábado" [The 20th edition of the LGBTQIA+ Pride Parade takes place this Saturday]. RDNEWS (in Brazilian Portuguese). August 30, 2023. Archived from the original on February 29, 2024. Retrieved October 25, 2025.
  4. ↑ Silva, Marcos Aurélio da (2016). "Numa tarde qualquer: uma antropologia da Parada da Diversidade em Cuiabá e da cultura LGBT no Brasil contemporâneo" [On any given afternoon: an anthropology of the Pride Parade in Cuiabá and LGBT culture in contemporary Brazil]. Bagoas - Estudos gays: gêneros e sexualidades (in Brazilian Portuguese). 10 (15): 103. ISSN 2316-6185 – via Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.
  5. ↑ Silva, Marcos Aurelio da (July 22, 2017). "O CORPO NA CIDADE: FESTA, MILITÂNCIA E OS CAMINHOS DAS POLÍTICAS LGBTS EM MATO GROSSO E NO BRASIL" [THE BODY IN THE CITY: FESTIVAL, ACTIVISM, AND THE PATHS OF LGBT POLITICS IN MATO GROSSO AND BRAZIL]. Amazônica - Revista de Antropologia (in Brazilian Portuguese). 8 (1): 149. doi:10.18542/amazonica.v8i1.4729. ISSN 2176-0675 – via Federal University of Pará.
  6. 1 2 Freire, Suzi Mayara da Costa (2014). O MOVIMENTO LGBT EM MATO GROSSO: TRAJETÓRIA, AGENDA E ESTRATÉGIAS NA LUTA POR DIREITOS [THE LGBT MOVEMENT IN MATO GROSSO: TRAJECTORY, AGENDA, AND STRATEGIES IN THE FIGHT FOR RIGHTS] (Thesis) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Cuiabá: Institute of Human and Social Sciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso. pp. 120–138. Retrieved October 25, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Parada da Diversidade toma as ruas de Cuiabá e cobra direitos pela família" [Diversity Parade takes to the streets of Cuiabá and demands rights for the family]. RDNEWS (in Brazilian Portuguese). December 4, 2021. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved October 25, 2025.
  8. ↑ Araújo, Pollyana (November 23, 2013). "Gays e evangélicos dividem mesma praça antes da Parada Gay em Cuiabá" [Gays and evangelicals share the same square before the Gay Pride Parade in Cuiabá]. G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved October 25, 2025.
  9. 1 2 Silva, Marcos Aurélio da (2016). "Numa tarde qualquer: uma antropologia da Parada da Diversidade em Cuiabá e da cultura LGBT no Brasil contemporâneo". Bagoas - Estudos gays: gêneros e sexualidades (in Brazilian Portuguese). 10 (15). ISSN 2316-6185 – via Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.
  10. ↑ "Em Cuiabá, 15ª edição da Parada da Diversidade LGBT debate cidadania" [In Cuiabá, the 15th edition of the LGBT Diversity Parade discusses citizenship]. G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). September 22, 2019. Retrieved October 25, 2025. No local, os participantes assistiram a apresentações artísticas, antes de seguirem em direção à Orla do Porto, às margens do Rio Cuiabá, onde o evento é encerrado com show da cantora Ludmilla. [There, participants watched artistic performances, before heading towards Orla do Porto, on the banks of the Cuiabá River, where the event ended with a show by singer Ludmilla.]
  11. ↑ de Deus, Joanice (September 22, 2017). "Ludmila é atração da Parada da Diversidade nesta 6ª em Cuiabá" [Ludmila is the featured artist at the Diversity Parade this Friday in Cuiabá]. FOLHAMAX (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on February 29, 2024. Retrieved December 10, 2025.
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