Carnival 2025: Highlights from Brazil’s street parties

Brazil’s 2025 Carnival revelry is ramping up, from the raucous street parties to the glitzy parades. Follow AP reporters and ...
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Rio Carnival parade will spotlight sex workers in effort to dismantle stigma

When Lourdes Barreto fled her home in Brazil’s northeastern state of Paraiba as a teenager — a move that launched her into sex work and a lifetime of activism — she never imagined that six decades ...
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Sex workers to be honored during annual Rio Carnival parade

Six decades after fleeing her home in Brazil’s northeastern state of Paraiba, a move that led her into sex work and a lifetime of activism, Lourdes Barreto never imagined a Rio de Janeiro samba school ...
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PHOTOS: This year’s Carnival in Rio had progress—and gays—on parade

Brazil has been in party mode since February 13 with the 2026 Carnival celebration, which wraps up this weekend. The atmosphere has been especially festive in Rio de Janeiro, where city officials were ...