A gay Brazilian tried to pick me up in a laundromat once. A lot of gays and trannies from Brazil like to move here to get away from the "machismo" of their home country.
In college, I took a course in Brazilian history at a very liberal elite university, with lots of "alternative" (revisionist) history.
They told us that the indigenous Indians of Brazil practiced extensive homosexuality, and that it became an entrenched part of the culture, although in a different way than in Anglo countries. And, to this day, homosexuality is very prevalent in Brazil, whereas other Latin countries are very intolerant of it.
Sorry.. don't mean to hijack the thread.