(Above: Brazilians celebrated in one of the world's largest Gay Pride events.)

(From BBC News): Brazilian activists and celebrities have condemned a court ruling that approves a "cure" for gay people.

Waldemar de Carvalho, a federal judge in the capital Brasilia, backed a psychologist who had her license revoked for offering so-called "conversion therapy."

Rozangela Justino is an evangelical Christian who has called homosexuality "a disease." Critics have called the ruling regressive and medically unsound.

Brazil's Federal Council of Psychology banned psychologists from offering treatments that claim to change people's sexuality in 1999.

It said in a statement that the decision "opens the dangerous possibility of the use of sexual reversion therapies" and promised to fight it in court. (To read the complete article and gay reaction in Brazil, Click here to read more.