Revelers hold a giant flag during the Gay Pride Parade, where millions took to the streets of South America's biggest city on Sunday in Sao Paulo's 13th annual gay pride parade. Photo by AP.
Sunday's carnival-like event drew gay men, lesbians, cross-dressers and even heterosexual couples - many accompanied by their children - for a mammoth march down skyscraper-lined Avenida Paulista to the beat of loud music blasting from some 20 sound trucks.
Kicking off the parade, Mayor Gilberto Kassab said: "This parade is an opportunity to express our repudiation of homophobia."
Police declined to release a crowd estimate, but organizers hoped the turnout would make it the world's biggest gay pride parade.
