Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press

• Movies
• 2016-08-18
• PT
• Released
• 1h 22m
• BR
• Documentary

• 8.0
• 1

Production

Canal Brasil

Storyline

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.