Court overturns City Hall veto and allows LGBTQIA+ parade to be held in Vinhedo The Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo (TJ-SP) overturned a City Hall veto and allowed the 9th LGBTQIA+ Pride Parade to be held in Vinhedo (SP). There is a challenge. The event is scheduled for August 16, 2026, at the city’s community center. The decision, which is preliminary in nature, still obliges the administration to meet with the event organizers to define logistics. If the determination is not complied with, the municipality may receive a daily fine of R$20,000. According to information obtained by g1, the Vinhedo LGBT Pride Parade Association - Bianca Niero, responsible for the parade, even formalized a request for the party to take place at the community center. ? Join the g1 Campinas channel on WhatsApp However, City Hall rejected the request, based on alleged damage that would have been found in the public space in previous editions of the event and alleged public safety problems. The Executive has not yet allowed the association to hold any demonstration using fixed structures, such as stages and electric trios. Due to the ban, the organizers decided to file the case. g1 sought out Vinhedo City Hall to comment on the decision, but had no response until the last update of this report. Request and analysis Supposed damage pointed out by Vinhedo City Hall Reproduction/TJ The association's request to stop at the community center was presented to the municipality through administrative process No. 1,276/26, opened on January 28, 2026. The following day, the Department of Justice issued an opinion against holding the event. The document cites two previous administrative procedures that pointed to the party as responsible for alleged damage to public space, which resulted in repairs worth R$161,100: Holes in the rubberized floor of the community center court resulting from the fixing of tents; Grid drag marks; Improper traffic of heavy vehicles in sports areas; Excessive accumulation of waste. Furthermore, the Municipal Civil Guard (GCM) would have advised against holding new stops at the community center "for reasons of public safety, urban order and mobility", suggesting a municipal park as an alternative. The opinion was accepted by the Attorney General's Office, the Department of Sport and Leisure and the Department of Social Defense and Urban Mobility. The final decision, however, was made by the Department of Culture and Tourism. An act signed by secretary Renato Romanetto definitively vetoed the event and highlighted both the alleged damage and the right of other citizens to "come and go". "Such losses not only reveal non-compliance with the contract on the part of the licensee, but also constitute an affront to the duty of custody and care for public assets, making it legally unacceptable for the administration to remain inert", pondered Romanetto. The act also determined that any demonstration promoted by the association would take place exclusively in open spaces, such as marches on public roads, and without the use of fixed structures. Process Archive image of the Vinhedo LGBT Pride Parade Pride Vinhedo The veto and the notes made by the municipal administration motivated the organizers to file a lawsuit. In it, the association recalled that the administrative procedures that investigated the alleged damage were discussed and annulled by the courts, because they did not provide evidence that the damage had been caused by the parade. "It is legally unacceptable and prohibited for the Executive Branch to resurrect or administratively reuse acts deconstituted by the Judiciary to justify new restrictions on the exercise of fundamental rights", protested the association. Furthermore, organizers accused City Hall of institutional homophobia — when barriers or prohibitions are placed on LGBTQIA+ public demonstrations under false claims of "protection of public property", "urban order" or "disturbing the peace". "Without the full freedom of assembly, free expression of thought and association, there is no democracy in fact. The peaceful assembly of citizens in public places constitutes the most basic instrument of collective expression and social demands", they considered. Decision Archive image of the Vinhedo LGBT Pride Parade Pride Vinhedo On July 27, 2026, the 1st Court of Vinhedo denied the association's request to overturn the veto on the event. However, the organizers appealed the decision and, last Friday (31), the TJ (2nd judicial instance) granted the injunction to suspend the effects of the municipality's decision, confirming the parade would take place. "There is no minimum proof of the alleged damage to public property caused in previous editions of the same event, and the photographs in the files are not enough for this purpose, without forgetting that the administrative process does not even include a copy of the technical report or budgetary breakdown of the losses allegedly suffered", said rapporteur Carlos Von Adamek. As a result, the City Hall has up to five days, from the date of the subpoena, to meet with the association to define the planning of the event. In case of non-compliance, a daily fine of R$20,000 will be imposed, limited to R$200,000. VIDEOS: everything about Campinas and the region See more news about the region on g1 Campinas