In early March, right before the coronavirus quarantine hit most of the world, GayCities sent Rio photographer Cesar Vieira to Ipanema, Rio’s lovely LGBTQ ‘hood that leads directly to the gay section of one of the most dazzling beaches in the world.
Though it was just under two months ago, today the photos feel like they are from another, less serious era, where gay people and what Brazilians call their “sympaticos” (straight allies) frolicked in the surf, drank mango Caipirinhas and flirted