peter991

Phuket Stan, on 2011-05-31 07:41:40, said:

We do. Maybe not as formally as a straight marriage - but when a foreigner gets married in a 'committment ceremony' in Issan, we often pay a fair bit of sin sod.

Peter

2004 - on my second visit to LOS. I had organised a 13th floor Pattaya condo for 3 months. I was keen to practice my Thai language skills. Headed off to a Boyztown bar with 3 Thai friends for drinks. Me - I'm a non-drinker - but warm night, plenty of eye-candy, a few Malibu rum and orange juices and I was very happy.

Along comes a mahout and his baby elephant. The idea is the mahout sells you a bunch of bananas - which you feed to his elephant. Me - after a few drinks asked (in my best Thai) if I could buy some bananas to feed his elephant. That's what I thought I asked. In fact - I asked if I could buy his elephant and some bananas!

The mahout was very happy - elephants are very expensive to maintain - and here was a farang who wanted to buy his elephant! He went away to get drunk. My Thai friends asked me if the landlord would approve of us keeping an elephant (admittedly a baby one) in the condo.

Then the penny dropped. I had to quickly explain that I wanted to buy bananas - not the elephant! They took off and quickly caught up with the mahout. They gave him 2 bottles of Thai whisky as compensation and gave him back his elephant. Later that night I saw 'my' elephant being loaded onto the back of a baht bus.

I am rather careful even now - how I practice my Thai language skills.

Welcome to Thailand, Dom. After the UK (or most western countries), Thailand is welcoming to gay people. You can be yourself! I am glad you have found a place you like. Depending on whether you are visiting as a tourist or have relocated here - please do not limit yourself to Bangkok.

Visit the gay capital of the universe (Pattaya). Then when you have a gay overload - take the time to get into the countryside and meet the 'real' people. Hopefully you will have the time to make a friend and they will show you around.

Peter

Facebook is another classic. So far, in all the profiles I have checked of Thai guys, only two have not mentioned that they are interested in Men. They are either all interested only in Men or in Men and Women.

Considering I have over 600 Thai Facebook Friends, does that mean that close to 99% of Thai males are either gay or bisexual?

Peter

So true  

Could equally apply to Australia .. but don't get me started or I'll get a LONG holiday.