Winter Party Festival is an iconic six-day celebration of LGBTQ people – diverse people from all over the globe – who come together to learn, live, love, laugh and forge lifelong relationships. Back in 1994, our founders kicked up their heels and invited the LGBTQ community to party on the sands of South Beach. More than twenty years later, under the leadership of the National LGBTQ Task Force, that one annual party on the beach …

Sambodromo is the Stadium of Samba. It is composed by the Parading Avenue and many concrete structures to the audience (the Sectors) though the Avenue. The Sambodromo has been projected by the worldwide recognized modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer. It has been built specially for the Rio de Janeiro Samba Parades and has been opened in 1984. Once it's made of concrete, it seems like a little bit old for today's post-modern eyes. Surrounded by slums …