Other important annual gay events include November’s Mix Brazil Festival, of gay film and video. The country’s love of festivals, its move to the left politically, and an explosion in awareness of gay issues paved the way for the June event that is so massive it is now noted in Guinness World Records as the largest of it's kind in the world. In São Paulo, the carnival-like Gay Pride Parade draws nearly four million people who crowd onto the main boulevard of Paulista Avenue and the surrounding streets. Emergency measures in the wake of Covid-19: Brazilian Report, and Travel Bans/Brazil.
