• A new picture gallery of Mister Brazil 2010, Jonas Sulzbach.
• Preview this year's bigger and better Fashion's Night Out.
• Gisele looks stunning in one of the eight collectible covers of Love magazine.
• Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrósio in the September issue of Vogue.
• In an interview to Folha de São Paulo, Lorenzo Martone said that him and Lance Bass are not dating, but that the two have hung out recently and are getting to know each other. Mr. Martone is currently in the country, and you can read another interview with him (in Portuguese) at Blog LP.
• A teenager was shot to death and another was shot in the leg this past weekend at the gay pride parade in Juiz de Fora, attended by over 70,000 people. The teenagers were hit during a confrontation between two rival gangs. 17 people have been detained by the police, two of them suspects of the crime.
• I finally got to check out the Transfer exhibit at Ibirapuera Park this past weekend. Really loved the work by Os Gêmeos on display, but other than that I was a little underwhelmed with the presentation and the selection of works. I was going to take pictures for a post, but security didn't allow it.

• 18-year-old Rael Costa, who we featured in the first issue of Made In Brazil Magazine, is Model Of The Week at Models.com. Love him.
• The Balenciaga fall 2010 ad campaign shot by Steven Meisel is one of my favorites so far this season.
• Francisco Lachowski talks to New York magazine.
• Alexandre Cunha by Paul James Hay.
• The LGBT Group of Brasília has organized an online campaign against the ban on gay blood donors. The current law in Brazil states that any man who has engaged in sex with another man in the 12 months prior to donating blood is prohibited to do so.
• Kids of gay parents speak out for marriage equality.
• Listen to Katy Perry's new single Teenage Dream.
• Check out pictures of the Transfer street art exhibit on display at Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo.
• Keith Haring - Selected Works, featuring 94 works by the artist never before seen in Brazil, opens on July 31 at Caixa Cultural São Paulo. The exhibit is presented by Litmedia Productions, and runs until September 5. After that, the exhibit will move to Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro from September 28 to November 14.
• Brazilian Day In New York will be taking place on Sunday, September 5th, with performances by Zezé Di Camargo and Luciano, Carlinhos Brown, and DJ Marlboro.

The processing of a new law in the National Congress prohibiting adoption by homosexual couples is making headlines in Brazil this week, and as much as I try to steer away from politics on the blog, I could not let this issue pass by unnoticed.

The Brazilian legislation currently does not refer to sexuality in the adoption process, and each adoption case is judged separately in a Court of Law. This new law aims to legally prohibit adoption by homosexual couples by stating that homosexual couples are not able to constitute a family, and that a child adopted by two homosexual parents is subject to  embarrassment and harassment growing up.

In a country with over 5,200 children in its adoption database, not only do I find it offensive that the National Congress would consider a homosexual couple unfit to raise a child, but I also consider it a threat against human rights in general, and more specifically against the national statutes for children and adolescents (which you can read in full here). According to those statutes, a couple is legally allowed to adopt a child in this country as long as they are legally married or bound by a civil union.

With so many children in this country in need of a home, education, and loving parents, is is disheartening to think that some people are trying to make the adoption process even more complicated and to lowerthe chances of those children to find a family.

I will make sure to keep you updated on the proceedings of this new law, and use the space I have here on the blog to fight it as much as I can.

Fyi, in April of this year a lesbian couple was given joint custody of two children in Rio Grande do Sul.

• I am obsessed with the new black & white Armani Exchange summer 2010 ads by Matthew Scrivens.
• I am also obsessed with this video by my friend Dean Isidro.
• Ellen Von Unwerth shoots Raquel Zimmermann and Caroline Trentini  for the June issue of Vogue Nippon.
• Evandro Soldati scored the Dolce & Gabbana fall 2010 ad campaign.
• Rie Rasmussen will be the new face of Brazilian label MOB.
• Shakira announces global tour.
• The Calvin Experience.
• Caroline Ribeiro for Shopping Iguatemi São Paulo.
• Love Martha Streck with her new blond hair.
• If you missed Adriana Lima's live broadcast last Thursday night, watch it here.
• Actress Juliana Paes has a very hot husband.
• In an unprecedented ruling, the Supreme Court of Justice recognized the legal adoption of a child by a homosexual couple from Rio Grande do Sul last week.