In 1981, celebrating its first anniversary, the Grupo Gay da Bahia published a summary of the group's actions on behalf of the LGBT community. Among its initiatives were a campaign to end homosexuality as a "deviation and mental disorder"; participation in the celebration of International Gay Pride Day, with activities such as lectures, graffiti, and leaflet distribution; and the organization of caravans in various cities in the
Northeast region, among others. In 1982, the Grupo Gay da Bahia published its first bulletin containing a list of LGBT people who had been murdered as a hate crime, entitled
Research on Homosexuals Murdered in Brazil (). In 1991, the institution created the
Pink Triangle Award, considered the first LGBTQIA+ award in Brazil.
Criticism Critics of the Grupo Gay da Bahia's work accuse the organization of inflating data on the true number of homophobic deaths in Brazil by classifying homosexual deaths as examples of "gay-hate deaths." In 2015, journalist Dario Di Martino produced a case-by-case review of the Grupo Gay da Bahia's 2013 report; in 2017, civil servant Daniel Reynaldo started a blog initially specializing in reviewing cases treated by the GGB as deaths motivated by LGBTphobic hate; later, geneticist Eli Vieira led a case-by-case review of the data from the 2016 report. ==See also==