Start at the corner of Rua Real Grandeza. People also gather in the street, sitting on cars while sipping a beer and making conversation. Loch Ness and Queen Victoria are good bets. On Copacabana Beach there's Maxim's Cafe, near Copacabana Palace Hotel . This is a traditionally gay-friendly area in Lido, known as Bolsa .
Transvestites are pretty much part of the scene.
Gay Kiosk Rainbow is right across the street. It can be easily identified by the family-size rainbow flag. Little of it remained. S t o, the hottest gay disco of the 70's, is long gone. Teatro Alaska, once official headquarters to all-male burlesque A Night with the Leopards, was turned into a church owned by TV evangelists.