One Monday afternoon in mid-August, the megalopolis of São Paulo, Brazil, fell into darkness.

The cause could have been forest fires burning more than a thousand miles away in the state of Rondônia, but the miasma could have stood as a metaphor for the way the country’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has cast a shadow in his nine months since taking office: increasing deforestation, using polarizing rhetoric and seeming to promote homophobia and transphobia.

That same day, Juliano Corbetta, an editor, said he was sitting in his São Paulo apartment, looking at a photograph of a male model wearing only a diamanté-studded thong (with a rhinestone heart applied to the model’s right buttock, for flair). Mr. Corbetta was evaluating the image for inclusion in his new publication, Samba Zine, which features only L.G.B.T.Q . Brazilian individuals, communities and causes.

Samba Zine is also produced by L.G.B.T.Q. Brazilian photographers, stylists, makeup artists and more. The magazine will be released in late September, will then publish twice a year, and will initially come with a footwear and T-shirt collaboration with the Brazilian brand Fiever, with proceeds from the items going to a São Paulo L.G.B.T.Q. support group called Casa 1.

“Samba is a visual manifesto,” Pedro Pedreira, a photographer who contributed to the debut, wrote in an email. “It documents Brazilian queer culture, right now, and in this moment of political calamity, I think it gives us some hope. The fashion, and a hint of sexiness, gives us the fantasy we need in these dark days.”