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Through artistic manifestations, a group of LGBTQIA+ people performs public stagings that raise debates on issues of gender, social inequality and prejudice in the streets of downtown São Paulo. Messing with the popular imagination and providing debates, the artists explain their daily struggles to anyone who is interested in acquiring a new perspective on the most subtle layers of intolerance.
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53,000 years before or after anyone. for three days the axis of the earth has stopped. The sun and moon inhabit the earth's horizon at the same time, aligned. The vibrations on the surface have reduced considerably, we are now very close to vital ground zero. Plant cells and human hemoglobin need to meet. There is only one moment for photosynthesis. The horror of the tropics gnawed at every eye. Free the condensed particle of everything.
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