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São Paulo is famous across the globe for its Parada do Orgulho, the largest gay pride procession in the world. However, compared to its tropical brother Rio de Janeiro, foreigners know very petite about Latin America’s largest and most populous city.
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Gay nightlife in Sampa, as São Paulo is also known, rivals major cities like Modern York and London. (One could even argue the city’s gay nightlife surpasses any gay club in the US or Europe.) By day, São Paulo suggestions world-class gastronomy, visual arts, and architecture.
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Hotels & AirfareLocation, amenities, price, and gay-friendly! View all » | Places to VisitMuseums, Finding gay men in South America’s largest city can be difficult, but not impossible if you know where to look. Scroll down for a neighborhood-by-neighborhood breakdown. Or, click the button below to view the VamosGay.com Google Chart of Gay Sao Paulo. Launch Google Maps Frei Caneca / ConsolaçãoAlso known as “Gay Caneca” this is an LGBT-friendly (or some might declare LGBT-dominated) section of the Consolação neighborhood. Its borders are roughly defined by the massive and bustling Avenida Paulista and the very gay and very cruisey Shopping Frei Caneca. Nightlife in Frei Caneca remains anchored by long-standing bedtime club Aloka which also reflects the youthful nature of the neighborhood. View neighborhood listings Largo do Arouche / CentroMuch favor New York City’s West Village in the 1980s, Largo undertake Arouche is filthy, a bit threatening , but never monotonous. Easily walkable in 15 minutes, this “gayborhood” flourishes as a home for the entire gender non-conforming rainbow. Bears, daddies, lesbians, and transsexuals are equally at home. Bars and clubs in Largo do Arouche are all about having a cheap superb time. There’s no architecture or design to admi Our insider’s guide to the best of LGBTQ+ São PauloTo get your top around São Paulo, you’ve got to get yourself up a few storeys, to look out at the sea of towers in which so many of the Brazilian megacity’s 22 million inhabitants live. Obtain yourself up lofty enough and you’ll see the intense sea–blue rooftop pools and the golf course–green helipads that rich paulistanos trust upon to insulate themselves from the chaos below. But as a visitor, you’ll want to accept a big munch out of that chaos. It’s what you came for. São Paulo is a work-hard-play-harder melting pot of cultures, the world’s most populous city outside of Asia. Unlike its chill Brazilian rival city, Rio de Janeiro, you won’t find beaches or untouched innateness (though there are some nice parks). But if you love art, shopping, restaurants, nightlife and festivals, hosted by some of the most beautiful, outgoing people on the planet, you might have found your paradise. And so much of it is queer. Since 2006, São Paulo’s Identity festival celebration has been known as the biggest in the world, but you don’t have to time your trip to coincide with the parade to be overwhelmed with LGBTQ+ choices. In many neighbourhoods, same-gender Gay São PauloMany of the world's major cities have really arrive out of the closet in the last decade or so, but none more than São Paulo. Its first Gay Celebration in 1997 only attracted about two thousand people, but ten years later it already had about 3.5 million participants, making it the world's biggest homosexual parade. A few days before that major event in 2007, about one million evangelical Christians protested against homosexuality, but that just may have inspired the city's gay and gay-friendly population to come out stronger, with over three times the number of people in the male lover parade. By 2013, as many as 5 million people participated in the event. With over 10 million residents, São Paulo has more people than many countries. As you'd expect in such a big metropolis, there is a variety of restaurants, bars, and clubs to love. You'll find that many of the nightlife hotspots are hip yet refreshingly unpretentious, and in the Jardins district you'll observe flyers advertising the special parties at the biggest clubs. Gay BarsMetropol Bar Part block, part dancing club, this is a good weekday destination, |