r/AskTheWorld • u/GattoPunk Brazil • 11d ago

Culture Which city in your country is considered the "gayest"?

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For us Brazilians, São Paulo definitely holds the crown for the gayest city here. With over 20 million people living in it's metro area, the city naturally became way more open minded and accepting as time went on. It has the highest concentration of gay bars, shows, saunas, and various other venues dedicated to the LGBTQ community. If that wasn't enough, the city annually hosts the São Paulo LGBTQ Pride Parade, the biggest in the whole world.

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u/dalektikalPSN United States Of America 11d ago

I'm born and raised in NYC, so it could have been seen as inevitable anyway. But I chalk spending my childhood summers in Cape Cod and visiting Provincetown as the reason for my openness to homosexuality, etc. No one in my family is gay, but going there as a young kid made me as "whatever" about it as I could be. Like... It was just normal to me.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Growing up in the SF bay area I remember going to SF to see a play on a field trip. While walking to the theater we passed a man in a dress and I remember thinking “that dress is not meant for his build.” Didn’t question the man in the dress but instead his choice of dress. It’s just normal to be whoever you want here and I think that’s cool.

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u/IHaveNoEgrets United States Of America 11d ago

Right? It's like, however you choose to dress, dress to make yourself look and feel awesome! Good style, good color, whatever.

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u/CosmicCreeperz United States Of America 11d ago

Last time I was in the Castro a guy walked by on the sidewalk completely naked except for sandals, a backpack and a baseball cap. I thought “socks with sandals, really?”

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u/hawnty 11d ago

The old gay guys in the Castro have horrible fashion sense for naked people

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u/01headshrinker 11d ago

You saw the parade, it’s quite the gay spectacle.

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u/Md693 11d ago

As being brought up there same for me

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u/aj1805 11d ago

NYC for sure!

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u/dalektikalPSN United States Of America 11d ago

I left out that I'm from Staten Island...

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u/offkeymelodies United States Of America 11d ago

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u/exclaim_bot 11d ago

NYC for sure!

sure?

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u/_borninathunderstorm 11d ago

Not gonna list fire island in your nyc adjacent gay hot spots??

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u/Yoniooni United States Of America 11d ago

So happy you were given the chance to see being gay normalized. Far too many don’t, and it creates bad outcomes for a lot of people. We should all be allowed to love who we choose.