This article is intended to give an overview of the history of LGBT rights in Brazil. Prior to 1800 1533: Portuguese Penal Code was instituted by colonial administration in Brazil. It illegalized sodomy or any sort of sexual intercourse between people of the same sex; it was influenced by the English Buggery Act 1533. 1591: Felipa de Souza was convicted of having relations with other women and tortured. 1614: Tibira do Maranhão was the first person to be executed for homosexuality in Brazil. 19th century 1830: Dom Pedro I signed into law the Imperial Penal Code. It eliminated all references to sodomy. 20th century 1960s 1960: Communism in Brazil--According to this vision (of communism), homosexuality was a product of bourgeois decadence and would disappear when capitalism was overthrown and a communist society established. In the 1960s, the Brazilian government viewed homosexuality as a fallacy that disrupted the true male essence of masculinity and bypassed an actual militant's image. The Maoist Communist Party of Brazil believed that homosexuality was intertwined with that communist ideology and that with the overthrowing of communism, homosexuality would too fall with it. 1970s 1978: SOMOS: Grupo de Affirmação Homossexual, Brazil's first LGBT activist group, founded in São Paulo. 1978: Two years later (1981), most of the women in it split to form the country's first independent lesbian organization, the Autonomous Lesbian Feminist Group (GALF). 1978: O Lampião, a gay magazine, with contributions by many famous authors, like João Silvério Trevisan, Aguinaldo Silva and Luiz Mott, is launched in April. It survived for three years. 1979 Grupo Lésbico-Feminista was formed in São Paulo by Míriam Martinho, Rosely Roth and others. It remained active for three years. Pornochanchadas were films that took off in the 70s and 80s, these were erotic-comedies of homosexuals. The films depicted the LGBT characters as a stereotype, affiliating them with a lower status and giving them scripts that were lifeless and displayed a fake flamboyant nature. 1980–1989 1980: Grupo Gay da Bahia, the oldest gay rights organization in Brazil, was founded in Salvador, Bahia, together with SOMOS, another organization in São Paulo, State of São Paulo. 1981: Grupo Ação Lésbica-Feminista (GALF) is formed in São Paulo with former members of Grupo Lésbico-Feminista and begins publishing a feminist journal "ChanacomChana". The banning of distribution of this journal in 1983 at the Ferro Bar and the protest that ensued is known as the Brazilian Stonewall.