Gay people are no longer welcome in the Sao Paolo Municipal Ballet School, where the city Mayor, Janio Quadres, has stationed police outside the door to prevent dancers who 'look queer' from getting in.
The directress of the school, Mariana Natal, called in the Mayor when she felt that gays were damaging the good name of her school, but didn't know how to tell them apart from the rest.
This request fitted in nicely with the Mayor's 'cleaning up' of the city's institutions.
As a result of the ensuing purge, 72 of the enrolled 80 male dancers are no longer tip-toeing through Ballet School. For the Mayor, not only does this promote wholesome community values, it should also help him with his other professional objective, cutting back the city deficit by reduced public spending. With no gay ballet dancers, he'll have to close down the school and the local performing arts theatre.