The Passionate Love of Junior and Zeca

or whether they will go mano a mano, so to speak, put a significant dent in Brazilian productivity on Friday night.

They are characters in a soap opera called 'America', which seems to serve no purpose other than to foster the idea that it's somehow OK just to barge your way into someone else's home and take their money.

Gay rights are big in Brazil; and judicial activism has been deployed for the purpose of acknowledging the solidity of gay relationships, even where the gays concerned would prefer to be thought of as defining their relationship in terms of 'friendship and an affinity of political ideas'; thereby blocking their path to control of a municipality.

So will Junior and Zeca eventually make out in Miami? Perhaps - but then again, they will be able to do so without fear of being gay-bashed, and not getting the respect with which they should be treated as Brazilians wherever they go.