It is a quintessential Amazon town-a colorful market with abundant local fruits and fish, a deprived economy, high migration, and a rather religious community.īenjamin Constant, like many other Amazon towns, also boasts a thriving gay community. The Brazilian town, with over 30,000 people from multiple ethnic backgrounds, sits at the triple border with Colombia and Peru, overlooking the junction of the Amazon and Javari rivers.
Just days before the release last month of the United Nations’ first official report on gay rights the small Amazon town of Benjamin Constant also marked an important milestone-its first gay pride celebration.
