gay NIGHT LIFE IN rIO DE JANEIROOUR LGBT GUIDE HAS JUST BEEN UPDATED WITH ALL THE LATEST INFO
Locals usuallly have dinner around 8 or 9 p.m.
Dinner is served late in Rio
If you eat early deal with it by making a healthy snack - should't we eat every three hours anyway? Pick your choice of restaurant or café, enjoy your meal, and around 10 or a bit later you will be ready to hit the bars. There are so many good restaurants in Rio... Do not to go to that same snack bar you have back home, to have the same old sandwich or chicken with fries. You will thank us later. 
The pink wave at rua Farme de Amoedo
It all started at the gay beach...
This cross-street in Ipanema is lined up with bars, cafés even juice stores. Things change all the time, but if you go today bar To Nem Aí should be crowded, there will be people at Beach Sucos, Devassa, Sindicato do Chopp... This is just a good place to start. there's plenty more.
Even on weekdays dance clubs run late in Rio
Be ready to hit the dance clubs never before midnight
Let's say it's Monday, usually the slow night of the week. You feel bored. Go to Le Boy - the place will be pumping on this mixed night with a drag show around 2:30 a.m. There are right clubs to go every night of the week in Rio. Big venues are home to special parties.
KEEP UP TO DATE WITH Rio'S PARTY SCENE
You need the help of a local with connections...
In all these years online we have made many friends in the LGBTQ party scene. In addition to some research, we are invited to the best parties and specials. We publish them every day. Check out the newsfeed on the right hand sde of our pages. It features our selection of the best picks!
circuit parties and specials galore
You have to come back often to keep up
We are not talking Carnival or New Year's when the line-up of parties with international DJ's is world-famous. On week or weekend nights, there are great parties happening all over the place. They may happen at erotic clubs turned disco, a photo studio in Botafogo, a lounge or restaurant in Ipanema. Some of them have expanded to huge spaces like the Circo Voador. Others are being exported to São Paulo...
