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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva, left, holds up a rainbow flag during the opening ceremony of the 1st
National Conference for Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, Transvestites and
Transsexuals in Brasilia, last Thursday, June 5. (Brazil’s First Lady Marisa Leticia,
and the South American nation’s Secretary of Human Rights, Paulo Vanucci, stand
to the President’s left.)
The conference, the first in the world to
be convened by a government, will be held June 5 - 8 in Brasilia,
with the theme ‘Human rights and public policies: the way forward for
guaranteeing the citizenship of Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, Transvestites and
Transsexuals’.
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