66% of LGBT people have worked 6x1. And 94% want the end of the shift

The reduction of the maximum working week to 44 hours and the end of the exhausting 6x1 work shift are demands defended by the majority of LGBT+ workers. This is what an unprecedented survey by VoteLGBT, carried out during the 29th LGBT+ Pride Parade in São Paulo, reveals.

The survey shows that 66% of those interviewed work or have worked in a 6x1 regime (six days of work for one day off) and that 94% support the adoption of a working week of up to five days a week, in addition to reducing the weekly workload.

Currently, three out of four LGBT+ people interviewed are engaged in some kind of paid activity. Among them, 57% work under the CLT regime — two percentage points more than the previous year —, while 15% work as freelancers, a reduction of 14 percentage points compared to 2025.

The proportion of people without paid employment fell by 26% during the period, and declared unemployment among LGBT+ people was practically halved, from 5.6% to 2.9%. The financial improvement also impacted declared income: the number of people without any source of income fell from 9.9% to 6.3%.

Although still alarming, food insecurity rates in the community showed a slight decline. Around 35.5% reported having faced situations of food insecurity in the last three months, a drop of five percentage points compared to the previous year.

Aging is still a challenge

One in ten Brazilians has already turned 60, in a country where life expectancy at birth exceeds 76 years, according to the IBGE. However, the so-called “decade of healthy aging in the Americas,” proclaimed by the UN, has not yet been achieved in an egalitarian manner.

The central theme of the 29th LGBT+ Pride Parade, “growing old with pride” continues to be an uncertain reality for the majority of the community. According to the survey, 67.9% of LGBT+ people do not feel safe growing old in Brazil. The rate is even higher among the trans population: 70.3% do not see aging as a positive scenario.

“A large part of the care for aging is still assumed by families. When we talk about LGBT+, we deal with scenarios of exclusion, even if partial, from this group. For LGBT people, aging is often synonymous with loneliness,” laments Gui Mohallem, executive director of VoteLGBT.

The closet is still a reality

Since 2019, the Supreme Federal Court has equated crimes of homophobia and transphobia to racial slurs, due to the lack of specific legislation to punish crimes against the LGBT+ community. Even so, recent legal certainty has not been enough to contain violence — and the fear of publicly expressing sexuality and gender identity persists.

In 2024, Brazil recorded 291 violent deaths due to LGBTphobia, an increase of more than 8% compared to the previous year, according to the annual report of the Grupo Gay da Bahia.

Everyday violence reinforces the insecurity of “coming out of the closet”. Of those interviewed by VoteLGBT, 36% said they avoid holding hands with same-sex partners for fear of negative reactions or reprisals.

The discomfort is even greater when exposing oneself in public spaces: 31% rated the level of discomfort when presenting themselves as an LGBT+ person in public places as “3” (on a scale of 1 to 5).

The survey was conducted on June 22, with 752 interviews and a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points, within a 95% confidence interval.