Club Metrópole

Clube Metrópole is the beating heart of LGBTQIA+ nightlife in Recife, the city's biggest and oldest gay club and one of the most storied in all of Northeast Brazil. It has been open since 2002 in a commanding building on Rua das Ninfas in the central Boa Vista district. More than a nightclub, it's a genuine symbol of queer resistance, culture and freedom, and it delivers on scale: multiple themed environments across the venue, a main electronic dance floor, Brazilian-music and pop rooms, lounges, bars, camarotes and an open-air area, hosting drag shows, renowned DJs, live acts and themed parties from pop and electronic to funk and brega. Warm, safe and famously welcoming, it draws a big, diverse, mostly LGBTQIA+ crowd (with plenty of open-minded straight friends in the mix) for nights that run till dawn. Prices are fair, the energy is contagious, and it remains the essential anchor of a night out in gay Recife; book ahead online, as the lines can be long.