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João Antônio de Sousa Mascarenhas (Pelotas, 24 October 1927 — Rio de Janeiro, 1998) was an important Brazilian social activist, pioneering in fighting for homosexuals' human and citizen rights in Brazil (check Brazilian Homosexual Movement).

Lawyer and a Pelotonese polyglot, Mascarenhas radicalized himself in the city of Rio de Janeiro, where he lives most of his life and the place where he died.

Mascarenhas was one of the founders of the newspaper O Lampião da Esquina, also known as simply O Lampião (1978) and also of the group Homossexual Triângulo Rosa (1977-1988), which was only officially registered in April 1985.

In 1977, Mascarenhas welcomed Winston Leyland, editor of the publisher Gay Sunshine Press, seeded in the city of San Francisco, a North American State in California, with the goal of forming a partnership with this researcher and foreigner author to talk about the ambition within this community of the Brazilian population. The end-result of this historical moment became pro LGBT citizens' rights in Brazil, therefore, this year is remembered as one of the stepping stone for the Brazilian Homosexual Movement.

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 * Movimentos civis LGBT no Brasil
 * Míriam Martinho
 * João Silvério Trevisan
 * Luiz Mott
 * Rosely Roth
 * Anderson Herzer
 * Turma OK
 * Vera




 * Intelligentsia homossexual e militância gay no Brasil… por Luiz Mott.
 * Triângulo Rosa - Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth. (Código de referência BR UNICAMP IFCH/AEL TR).
 * Leyland, Winston (ed.) Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature (1979). Traduzido por Erskine Lane, Franklin D. Blanton, Simon Karlinsky.
 * Bibliography of Gay and Lesbian History. compilado por Ricton Norton.
 * A Parada de São Paulo Homenageia Postumamente a João Antonio Mascarenhas (2005). por Marccelus Bragg.
 * Vera, o filme: Roth, Rosely. Boletim Um Outro Olhar Miriam Martinho, ano I, número 1, set/dez 1987.