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Macuna Bar
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.
Botafogo
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.
Updated 1 October 2026
Getting oriented
Think of this as an area to know, not a border.
Queer life spills across Rio de Janeiro. This page simply groups places that are easy to combine in one outing.
- Getting there
- MetrôRio Botafogo (Linha 1 / Linha 2). The three public doors are a walk from the station, not a single street strip.
- Accessibility
- Street, building, lift, toilet, seating, and sensory access vary by venue. Check the exact venue when access is important.
What to find here
3 places to start with.
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Oscar Selvagem
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.
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Mãe Joana
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.