Brazilian couple Felippe and Marlon wanted to raise awareness about homophobia in their country. So they did what any good homosexuals do when the want to protest: They stripped down to their birthday suits and boots and posed for a photo shoot on Paulista Avenue, one of the busiest streets in the heart of São Paulo.
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The couple teamed up with photographers Fabio Lamounier and Rodrigo Ladeira for the photo shoot. Their goals was to create a metaphor. Stripping naked strips away prejudices, and, in the process, opens hearts and imaginations.
Thanks, guys. Consider our imaginations opened.
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h/t: Gay News Network
Cesar Fortun
So what did they gain?
Glücklich
Did they shoot the photos at 3 AM on a Wednesday? Paulista’s like…5th Avenue, or Van Ness – always traffic.
Milton Appleby
Dumb.
Spike
Gratuitous and silly. Why try to attach a ’cause’ . . they just wanted to take pics nekkid in what otherwise would have been a busy street in the middle of the day.
blessingyou
Pleasant to look at, but I can’t imagine these pics changing the minds of any homophobes I’ve ever met. 😉
Kieran
What, no booty shots? Boo.
Viva Brazil!
Billy Budd
The correct name is SAO PAULO with an U. Shame on you, ignorant Americans.
stranded
Brazilians are so beautiful.
Tino Dreamerr
sexy
ParisNat
So what?
If they had really wanted to make a point, they’d have done this in daytime and not in the middle of the night.
Sad kids…
Rick
@Billy Budd: Ask a Brazilian to spell Albuquerque and then we’ll talk asshole.
Jandrooey
Puke!
Xzamilio
I thought this was Harry Louis and his man for a minute. I guess they didn’t break the mold with him. Why do all of these guys look identical? Do you, by all means, but who wants to look like everyone else? Not gonna lie, though… those bodies are snatched to the mf’ing gods lol!!!
lemon-lime
@Rick: Albuquerque is a portuguese word…or is that your point?
ParisNat
Yeah – more sad clones…
Spike
At least one of them have natural pubes.
Julius Jamora
Good for you guys…. Love and peace……ð??ð??ð??ð??ð??ð??
Billy Budd
@Rick: I know how to spell Albuquerque. Actually it is a Brazilian/portuguese word. So what.
Rohan Patel
ParisNat: Yep, more hot men. They’re not clones just because they’re part of a group who work hard to be in great shape.
Gilles Cédilot
Hope you win you case Big winner for the matter of ????
Clark35
This is why they hate us.
These men are handsome and intact with foreskins as mostly all men in Brasil and the rest of the world are.
@Billy Budd: LMAO! No it’s not, Brasilian or Portuguese. Albuquerque was originally a Spanish/Iberian name for a town in Spain.
Bauhaus
@Clark35:
Sir, your own propensity for hate rivals any hatred “they” have for us, but THEY don’t come on here daily and express it.
Captain Obvious
Meanwhile Brazilian police are gunning down the dark skinned citizens(nearly everyone in Brazil is mixed with black, white, and some Asian) at a ridiculous rate bordering on mass genocide and even caught on camera saying that’s exactly what they’re trying to achieve.
But you know… keep worshipping light skinned Brazilians and refuse to read up on why you shouldn’t be paying them any attention and even boycotting them until they stand up against the genocide.
Brazilians claim race doesn’t exist for them because they all know they’re all extremely mixed so they break off into every skin tone imaginable and the darkest of the bunch are constantly being murdered daily for NO reason.
For the love of God stop supporting this nonsense and drooling over light skinned Brazilians while they ignore their own families being murdered.
People can get up in arms over a dead lion and the abortion of Asian females but young men being murdered at beyond alarming rates in Brazil is going ignored.
If you can boycott Chic Fil A then you can boycott your little Brazilian worship/fetish/whatever.
Bauhaus
@Captain Obvious:
I’d be in big trouble if I boycotted my “little Brazilian worship/fetish/whatever” , I married him.
Xzamilio
@Bauhaus: Don’t think CO’s comment gave you the setup for what you said… seemed dismissive. But I still luh you!!
tdh1980
Isn’t the point of bringing awareness to an injustice to highlight that injustice so as to educate and enlighten people? This appears to be nothing more than shameless self-promotion. As someone who follows several Tumblr blogs that feature gorgeous men, I have no problem with men who chooses to flaunt their assets, but I am tired of those who do so under the false pretense that it’s for some cause in an effort to make their narcissism seem more noble.
David Bolton
That street sure looks… busy.
Dixie Rect
If they wanted to make a statement about homophobia, then why do this when no one is there? Seems like they chickened out. Makes no sense.