Brazil’s Street Carnival is LGBT friendly. Here celebration takes place all through the month of February. The main Carnival will be celebrated from Feb. 9th – 14th.
In Brazil, Rio de Janeiro has the most famous and organized street Carnival with over 460 groups participating. Often believed to be the largest Carnival by the Guinness World Records, Rio de Janeiro has no LGBT-specific Street Carnival groups. However, the most popular ones are wide-ranging and friendly. This makes some of them to make the best gay choices for fun and flirting.
The “Banda de Ipanema” is the most traditional group in Rio. It makes the choice for everyone to get the party kick started on Feb. 10th. As event is filled with all kinds of people, it’s quite a safe choice for people belonging to the LGBT community looking for a good time. The group “Sargento Pimenta” or “Sergeant Pepper” are another big crowd pleaser. Known for transforming Beatles songs with samba beats, this group conventionally lures hipster and modern crowds wherever it goes. Before they move to the streets on Feb. 12 in Rio, they will go to the São Paulo streets in one of the most pre-Carnival events in the city. It takes place on Saturday before Carnival week, traditionally.
And their procession exactly forms one of the biggest São Paulo pre-Carnival crowds usually compelling the group to take indirect route in few selected streets to avoid the never-ending crowds.
São Paulo, one of the most LGBT-friendly Brazilian cities, it has the most traditional LGBT groups of street Carnival in the country. Majority of them are well-known for their pre-Carnival parades and some of them take a piece of the city to call their own.
