Gay district sao paulo

To get your chief 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. Procure yourself up elevated enough and you’ll see the profound sea–blue rooftop pools and the golf course–green helipads that rich paulistanos hinge on upon to insulate themselves from the chaos below.

But as a visitor, you’ll want to hold a big chew 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 essence (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 Event 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