The 4th National Conference on the Rights of LGBT+ People begins this Tuesday (21) in Brasília, bringing together thousands of participants through Friday (24) for key debates on public policies aimed at the LGBT+ population.
Under the theme “Building the National Policy for the Rights of LGBT+ People,” the event is designed as a space for active listening and dialogue. Its main goal is to deepen discussions and propose effective, impactful guidelines on issues central to this community.
Brazil’s national LGBT+ conferences were first held in 2008, followed by editions in 2011 and 2016. Over the past nine years, during the administrations of Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro, no conferences were convened.
Now, with the end of that nine-year gap, the 2025 edition aims to renew dialogue around promoting human rights, ensuring full citizenship, and confronting structural discrimination, while also addressing urgent social issues such as violence and unemployment, which disproportionately affect the LGBT+ population.
This year’s discussions are structured around four central themes that reflect these priorities: access to employment and anti-discrimination policies, intersectionality, internationalization, and institutionalization of national LGBT+ policies. These themes are seen as essential to bringing the National Plan for the Promotion of Human Rights and Citizenship of LGBT+ People into reality.
The program includes panel discussions, working groups, a keynote lecture, and a variety of self-organized activities, spaces dedicated to building concrete policy proposals and advancing the national human rights agenda.
The Final Plenary, scheduled for Friday (24), will formally present the comprehensive set of proposals developed throughout the week to guide Brazil’s future National LGBT+ Policy.
Organized through preparatory mobilizations that gathered 21,000 people across the country in the first half of the year, the conference brings together activists, civil society organizations, government representatives, international entities, institutions, and the private sector.
