LGBTQ+ city guide
Rio de Janeiro
Start at Posto 9 in Ipanema, then walk Farme de Amoedo. Copacabana holds Pink Flamingo, La Cueva, and Tau. Lapa is a second night: Street, Portal, and Agyto.
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easy first evening · beach
Ipanema is the walkable first evening in this census. Visit Rio names Posto 9, between Farme de Amoedo and Teixeira de Melo, as the LGBTQIAP+ beach meeting point. Riotur calls Rua Farme de Amoedo one of the city’s main LGBTI+ streets. Galeria Café on Teixeira de Melo 31 closed in February 2026; do not treat Visit Rio’s still-live Galeria line as an open door. Silêncio Ipanema is the remaining Teixeira de Melo listing.
easy first evening · bars
Riotur names Rua Farme de Amoedo as a main LGBTI+ street: restaurants, hostels, hotels, and bars behind Posto 9. It is a street cluster inside Ipanema, not a second city. Booze Bar prints number 47 on its own site and does not call itself an LGBTQ room, so it is not a second public listing here. Community lead-gen still names Bar da Dado at number 49 without a first-party traveler page.
drag · late night
Copacabana is a second outing, not a walk from Posto 9. Visit Rio and Riotur name Pink Flamingo on Rua Raul Pompéia 102, La Cueva on Rua Miguel Lemos 51, and Tau Bar Club on Avenida Nossa Senhora de Copacabana 1417. Pink Flamingo occupies the old Le Boy door. QG Pub / Mais Q Pub is named on the Riotur LGBTI tour without a street, so it is not mapped. The 31ª Parada uses the Copacabana orla.
dancing · late night
Lapa is the Centro night in this census, around the Arcos. Riotur’s festas page places Street Lapa at Rua do Riachuelo 15, Portal at Rua do Lavradio 163, and Festa Agyto at Avenida Mem de Sá 66. OpenStreetMap still names a different Portal da Lapa on Avenida Gomes Freire 559; that is not a second public listing. Selina’s rooftop appears on the Riotur LGBTI tour as a mixed hotel terrace and is not mapped as a gay club.
bars · live music
Botafogo is a third outing: bars and rooms named on Riotur or Visit Rio, not a beach crawl. Macuna Bar is on Rua Fernandes Guimarães. Oscar Selvagem is on Rua Paulo Barreto. Mãe Joana is on Rua Rodrigo de Brito. Femme Club Rio is named as an itinerant lesbian party, not a standing Botafogo door.
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landmark · Ipanema / Posto 9
Visit Rio names Posto 9, between Farme de Amoedo and Teixeira de Melo, as the LGBTQIAP+ beach meeting point. It is an outdoor stretch of orla, not a bar.
landmark · Rua Farme de Amoedo
Riotur calls this Ipanema street one of the city’s main LGBTI+ spots, with restaurants, hostels, hotels, and bars behind the beach. It is the street, not a single venue.
bar · Ipanema / Posto 9
Visit Rio lists Silêncio Ipanema at Rua Teixeira de Melo 47 as an LGBTQIAPN+ bar, the Ipanema sister of the 2025 Barra room. Galeria Café at number 31 on the same street closed in February 2026 and is not this door.
club · Copacabana
Visit Rio and Riotur name this Copacabana LGBTQIA+ room. Visit Rio says it moved to Rua Raul Pompéia 102. That number is the former Le Boy door. Programming is drag, Treta, and themed nights on Instagram; confirm the night on the day you go.
club · Copacabana
Visit Rio calls La Cueva one of Brazil’s oldest LGBT+ rooms, 61 years on, for maduros, ursos, and friends, with pop nights until dawn and a neighbouring bar for a shorter drink. The listing prints Rua Miguel Lemos 51.
club · Copacabana
Visit Rio and Riotur name Tau Bar Club on Avenida Nossa Senhora de Copacabana 1417. Visit Rio says it runs every day with funk, pop, and electronic nights and a younger crowd.
club · Lapa
Riotur’s festas page and LGBTI tour place this Lapa club at Rua do Riachuelo 15. The tour text says it opened in 2017 for the LGBTI+ public and now runs multiple floors, bars, and open-bar nights.
club · Lapa
Riotur’s festas page calls Portal the Lapa LGBT+ club with two or three dance floors and names Rua do Lavradio 163. OpenStreetMap still names a different Portal da Lapa on Avenida Gomes Freire 559; that name is not a second public listing.
club · Lapa
Riotur’s festas page lists Festa Agyto at Avenida Mem de Sá 66 as one of the city’s large LGBT+ nights, with DJs and drag. OpenStreetMap names the nightclub Agyto at that number. Visit Rio’s pride-month page also names Agyto in Lapa.
bar · Botafogo
Riotur’s LGBTI+ tour names Macuna in Botafogo as a food, music, and art room with a terrace and a Thursday jazz night. The street used in this census is Rua Fernandes Guimarães 66, matching the mapped building.
bar · Botafogo
Riotur’s LGBTI+ tour names this Botafogo pub, a nod to Oscar Wilde, and highlights Friday Love Mistakes karaoke with the drag pair Maybe Love and Linda Errors.
bar · Botafogo
Visit Rio lists Mãe Joana at Rua Rodrigo de Brito 14 A, Botafogo, with lunch, snacks, drinks, karaoke, DJs, and pagode. It sits on the same Visit Rio LGBT bars page as Silêncio and Pink Flamingo.
bar
Visit Rio lists this Santa Teresa LGBTQIAP+ bar at Rua Paschoal Carlos Magno 90, with snacks, drinks, live music, and art nights. It is a separate hill outing, not part of Lapa or Ipanema.
bar
Visit Rio lists the 2025 Silêncio room on Avenida Olegário Maciel 135, loja E, Barra da Tijuca, as an LGBTQIAPN+ bar with DJs, house and disco, and dancers. It is not a walk from Ipanema.
club
Riotur’s festas page and LGBTI tour name Up Turn as a mostly gay club at Avenida das Américas 2000, Barra da Tijuca. It is a Barra door, not a Zona Sul walk.
club
Riotur’s festas page lists Kode at Rua Sacadura Cabral 308, Saúde, as a large electronic room with house, tribal house, pop, and funk. It is a port-area door, not Lapa and not Ipanema.
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Riotur’s festas page names Espaço Fênix in Campo Grande as a mostly gay Zona Oeste room, more than 13 years on, at Estrada Rio-São Paulo 650. Community threads still point travelers here. It is not a Zona Sul night.
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22 November 2026, 11:00 am–22 November 2026, 11:59 pm
The 31ª Parada do Orgulho LGBTI+ do Rio is organised by Grupo Arco-Íris. Campaign launch coverage on 22 May 2026 dated the march 22 November 2026 on the Copacabana orla, with the theme “Reconhecemos justa toda forma de amor e de existência.” The organiser homepage was a parked host page on 1 October 2026. Confirm the concentration point and any route change on Riotur, Visit Rio, or the organiser’s current channel before you go. Do not copy an older Copacabana Posto 5 time forward.
Dates awaiting official announcement
Visit Rio describes Rio de Cores as a Visit Rio and LGBT Chamber of Commerce collaboration around Pride month. The fetched page names a fifth edition and does not print a 2026 or 2027 date window. Do not invent a festival week.
Dates awaiting official announcement
Riotur’s festas page names V de Viadão as a recurring LGBT+ night with drag, pop, disco, and house, and prints Rua Sacadura Cabral 154, Saúde. Community threads treat it as a current party brand. No standing 2026 calendar was fetched. Do not copy a past flyer date.
Dates awaiting official announcement
Riotur lists Festa Agyto at Avenida Mem de Sá 66 as a large Lapa LGBT+ night. The standing room is also a public place in this census. Party dates wait on the organiser. Do not treat every Lapa Saturday as an Agyto night.
Dates awaiting official announcement
Riotur names Femme Club Rio as a lesbian-majority party with rotating themes. The LGBTI tour does not print a standing street. The festas page marks it itinerant. Do not invent a Botafogo or Copacabana door.
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