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Tiago and Jefferson are customizing their wedding on the sea using the African based traditions of Candomble and some new ones of their own. Brazil doesn't have many same-sex marriages, but this will be one to remember.
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00:05This marriage is much more than a marriage. It's a political act.
00:11Two men have a resistance, and two black men have a resistance.
00:18We thought about something that celebrates love.
00:20We chose Cundomblé to be an African religion.
00:24I'm Jefferson.
00:26I'm Thiago, and we're going to do a homoafetive relationship with Afro-Brasileiro.
00:35There are several types of love. All these love are valid.
00:48There is a great population in Brazil who is homoafetive.
00:53Our parade is one of the biggest in the world.
00:59And you still feel upset when you hear news
01:03that a couple was attacked by walking on the street.
01:07You know?
01:09It's very sad to see this.
01:17The market is not prepared to do a homoafetive relationship with Afro-Brasileiro.
01:22You always have to be creating something, because you don't find it in the market.
01:27I said to Thiago, if I were to get married, I would have to do something memorable,
01:32something memorable, something that would be marked in the memory of people.
01:42They're not the place to do it.
01:44If you know the hotel, I think he's not the best.
01:46No sea, with the rituals of the Bahia, the land of the Orixá.
01:53In my time there wasn't this kind of marriage, and then I was crazy to watch a gay marriage.
02:05For me, this marriage is a revolution.
02:13I was created in Salvador, the Mediterranean city.
02:17We didn't have many financial resources, so the beach was the only space we had to play.
02:23So this contact with the mar always was present.
02:30At the night that preceded the marriage, the idea was to take a bath in the sea,
02:34put some roses and a bottle of alfazema, as a form of gratitude to the Emanjá, in the Candomblé.
02:41The orixá are divinds that form the African pantheon.
02:47Emanjá is a orixá, the queen of the sacred waters.
02:51It's a mother that takes care of and protects.
02:54When we bring the orixá symbols, we say that everything that black people suffered,
03:01the religion that was built in the African matrix, is valid.
03:09Dá um mergulho no mar, que é o melhor banho de limpeza espiritual que existe em qualquer lugar do mundo.
03:20A espiritualidade irá regindo todo o percurso do casamento.
03:25O orixá em que rege vocês está representada na decoração.
03:33There is also another tradition, that is the father of the wife pays a party, we heard a lot of
03:38this joke.
03:38Who is the father of the wife who pays a party?
03:41We are the father of no one, because we work, we have the conditions to ban our party.
03:50There is a Brazilian tradition of the wedding day,
03:53where the wife spends the day doing massage.
04:00We changed this tradition and we will have the day of the wife.
04:06We also want to make the Barbie before the ceremony.
04:12The gay marriage is almost as we never see in Brazil.
04:19It is evolving.
04:25You are wonderful.
04:27Now it's just me.
04:32Viva the diversity, viva everything.
04:35Let's be happy, it's what matters, it's what matters, and that's it.
04:39I'll take you.
04:43My mother unfortunately doesn't come, because of religion.
04:47She's relationship with us.
04:49She's not a homophobic, you know, against the relationship.
04:52But I think that the act of marriage, the religion puts a freer in it and says that she can't
04:56participate.
04:57And today it was even nice that the mother of Jefferson said to me,
05:01that she's your mother who doesn't come, but I'm your mother.
05:04And I'm going to be here, you know.
05:07It was very nice to hear it.
05:09It was very nice to hear it.
05:10It was very nice to hear it.
05:10It was very nice to hear it.
05:12It was very nice to hear it.
05:23Let's see the first time.
05:26Let's see the makeup on her.
05:28Let's see.
05:39Let's see the makeup on her.
05:49Let's see.
05:52We managed to make a wedding ceremony that respects all of this.
05:59The plaquinha announced the arrival of the wife.
06:02We will send them to write a phrase that we tattooed.
06:06That no one will be able to tell us how to love.
06:09That there are no rules for love.
06:33For the ceremony, we thought about the rito of the forest.
06:36We thought about the seven colors of the rainbow.
06:44The earth is the matrix of everything.
06:46Our family, as a matrix-generated, adds the earth to the vase.
06:50And in the following of the family, each couple of parents will have an orange.
06:55We are associating the color to the orichá and the couple of parents.
07:01All the guests, in some way, are our family.
07:17And in the end, our idea is that whoever looks at the vase with all the leaves,
07:21see the flag of gay pride.
07:27This is my favorite part of the ceremony.
07:34And our pet will be dressed as a bride,
07:37carrying the alliances together with my younger sister.
07:50It will be difficult to hold the atmosphere.
08:02It will be difficult to hold the atmosphere.
08:16And the other one, I'll take care of you,
08:16I want to kiss, but he wants to kiss the years of the 30s.
08:19He wants to kiss the face of my face.
08:21He wants to kiss the face of the day.
08:24He's trying to kiss the face.
08:40And we're going to invite those who want to take red roses and go to the sea.
08:46Thank you to Emanjá.
08:48One, two, three!
08:59If people can look and say, look, two guys in Brazil, in São Paulo, married.
09:05And if they married, we can.
09:08I think that's the biggest resistance.
09:11And love.
09:13Love is essential.

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