marijuana, for equal marriage laws and for the legalization of abortion. He ran for the mayoral office of Rio de Janeiro in 2008, and was defeated by Eduardo Paes in the runoff round on October 26 (49.3% – 50.7%). He also lost a bid to become Governor of Rio de Janeiro in 2010. The knitted swimsuit affair He lived for a decade in exile from Brazil during the military dictatorship, and returned to his country in 1979. Just after his return, a photo of Gabeira wearing a very small knitted swimsuit on Ipanema beach turned into a national scandal. Many years later, Gabeira revealed that his scandalous bathing suit was indeed the bottom part of one of his cousin Leda Nagle's bikinis. Literary career In 1979, he wrote the book What is it, mate?, about his participation in the armed struggle against the military regime in Brazil (1964–1985) and his subsequent exile in Europe. The book won the Jabuti Literature Prize in the biography and (or) memories category in 1980 and was made into the film Four Days in September by filmmaker Bruno Barreto in 1997. In 1980, he released The Twilight of the Male, a continuation of What is it, mate? . In 1981, he launched Entradas e Bandeiras , a book in which he chronicles his return to Brazil and his abandonment of Marxist ideology, starting to fight for issues such as ecology, pleasure and sexual freedom. In the same year, he launched Hôte da utopia, in which he deepens his new ideological positioning. In 1982, he launched Sinais de vida on Planeta Minas, in which he tells the feminist struggles against the conservative society of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais , through the biographies of five women from Minas Gerais. Among them, Dona Beja and Ângela Diniz . In Goiânia, 57th street – the nuclear plant in the land of the sun, launched in 1987, Gabeira narrated the radiological accident that occurred in Goiânia in September of that year. In 2000, he launched the book Marijuana , in which he discusses the decriminalization of its use, its therapeutic functions, the social role it plays etc. In 2006, he launched the book Navigation in the fog, under a Creative Commons license, dealing with the Leech Scandal in 2005. In 2012, he released the book Onde Está Tudo Aquilo Agora . In 2017, he released the book Tropical