Vivendo o Brasil!

Thanks to Brazil's National Council of Justice, marriage equality has moved from being limited to a handful of states to being approved nationwide. 

Details on Brazil's big day after the jump!

If you've been going through withdrawals because it's been two or three months since Madonna last pulled her hard earned diva card, then you can breathe a sigh of relief today 'cause the MDNA is being served up on a platter and telling bitches to EAT IT once again.  

Same-sex couples looking to tie the knot in Brazil can know do so in the largest city in the southern hemisphere, São Paulo. The state (which goes by the same name) surrounding the epicenter of Brazil's LGBT community has extended marriage rights to same-sex couples, and will provide licenses to out-of-state gay couples as well as foreign same-sex lovebirds. 

Uruguay, Brazil's southern neighbor, has this week started discussions of moving beyond the civil unions it already provides same-sex couples to a law of marriage equality. 

This new and not exactly clear ad for gay vacay website Gay-Ville makes our head spin as fast as the metamorphasis the drag queen Wonder Woman co-starring in the video endured. With the high quotient of Brazilian gay jocks and campy drag antics, who cares that the NSFW-ish video makes no sense at all??

Viva Brasil!

A gay couple in Argentina have plenty to celebrate after welcoming a healthy baby boy into their lives and becoming the first time in the country's history that two fathers have been accepted on a birth certificate.

How do friends throw you a shower for that??

(Details follow.)

Huarmey, Peru Mayor José Benítez has attempted to cause panic among the people of his coastal beach town by warning them that drinking tap water from a new source will turn them gay. Details follow.

The American gay blogosphere is applauding two ads out of Argentina that have hit the country's airwaves. The spots, which ask Argentineans to support pending legislation that seeks to expand healthcare rights to transgender citizens, are about as progressive as a nationally-broadcasted TV commercial can get. Watch the ads that you likely couldn't imagine running in the U.S., after the jump.

The implications of the murky ruling are still being considered, but Brazil's highest court has ruled 4 - 1 that at least one same-sex couple in the country has access to full federal marriage rights.

A tit for a tat? Chile's President Sebastian Pinera pushed for civil union legislation this week while continuing to sound-off against full marriage equality for LGBT Chileans. Details follow. 

Though every day that a heterosexual isn't murdered, bullied, harassed or discriminated against based on their sexual orientation should amount to enough of a celebration of pride, the city of Sao Paulo still felt the need to give the greenlight to petitioners asking for an official Straight Pride Day. Oh, and in case you thought otherwise, Straight Pride organizers say their proposed holiday is in no way meant to disrespect the gay community. 

Everything that's made in Brazil must be beautiful (note this totally gratuitous picture). This is why we always head to Made In Brazil when we're feeling a little under the A+ gorgeous factor we've become accustomed to. These men make us step up our game again and stop the whining. Our inspiration, for this week, is after the jump.