Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press (movie)
Lampião da Esquina- User score: 8
- Production country: Brazil
- Producer: Lívia Perez , Noel Carvalho
- Production companies: Canal Brasil
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 8/18/2016
- Run time: 82 min.
Movie description
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.
