Cantho

Cantho is one of São Paulo's long-running gay dance clubs, a fixture of the downtown scene where an older, unpretentious crowd comes for pop, flashback and Brazilian hits rather than the tourist circuit. It stays busy on weekends and keeps the kind of loyal regulars that only decades in the same spot can build. If you want a night out with locals rather than a polished club show, this is the sort of place people mean when they talk about the "traditional" Caneca-and-Centro scene.