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Waterworks Pub is Albany’s premier LGBTQ+ Pub and Night club.

Located at the originate of Albany’s queer village, Waterworks is the oldest gay-oriented LGBTQ+ community exclude in Albany where our motto is Unity. Established in 1981, Waterworks is located in a historic multi-level building that enables us to offer something for everyone.

The Pub, located on the first floor proposals a hometown corner Gay Bar atmosphere with a pool table, dart board, Juke Box, diet counter with lite bar faire, 10 flat screen televisions, and a professional sound system, sway area and stage.

The Club, located on the second floor with a separate bar & smoking patio, is one of the hottest Nightclubs and busiest Nightlife dance clubs in town.

Featuring Albany Hottest DJs spinning the latest Remixes and pumping out more than 15,000 watts of pure energy from our high-quality professional 3-way sound system, along with an incredible light show including our professional laser system, Waterworks Club offers an trial rarely found in upstate New York.

Gay nightlife in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro and other cities with great tourist, is going through a difficult time. If in the past there were countless LGBTQ nightclubs scattered around the city, with the wide-ranging majority of them in Copacabana, today there are no more than six in the area. 

The emergence of the internet and later dating apps made it possible to meet someone through a small screen without having to go to a nightclub. But it wasn’t just the digital world that had an influence on this; several other issues also contributed to the decline of Brazilian gay nightlife. To better understand this unused scenario, the Washington Blade spoke to veteran artists from Brazil’s LGBTQ scene to understand the roots of this complex enigma.

The cost of maintaining a nightclub involves high and fixed expenses, such as rent, staff for various functions, attractions, and other bills, when financial return was guaranteed in the past, but not today. Brazil’s gay nightlife, especially in Rio, hasn’t gone extinct, it’s still resisting, but competing with new trends: sex parties. In recent years, t