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13th Outubro 2022
The hard life of drag queens in Rio de Janeiro
With a career spanning more than ten years, Karoline Absinto, 34, remembers the golden days of Rio de Janeiro’s LGBT nightlife, when she had a full schedule of performances in nightclubs on weekends.
Today, the situation is discouraging. The rise of the Internet, the dating apps launched in recent years, the unstable economy, and finally the pandemic, have contributed to the bankruptcy of several dance clubs (mainly for gay men) in the main metropolises of Brazil, such as Rio and São Paulo.
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