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Yes, there IS a gay bar on Walking Street: I always wondered why there was such a dearth of gay pole dancing emporiums on Sin City's premier centre of debauchery. A few boy bars have come and gone, but they seemed more geared toward heterosexual couples than friends of Dorothy; and of course, there are katoey bars such as Jenny Star on the sin strip. Now, situated (appropriately) near Soi BJ, is G-U-Y Club, under the same management as Wild West Boys on Pattayaland Soi 2. It's one shop house in width and has a cave like ambiance. There's a small platform adjacent to the bar, with room for one or two dancing lads. The guys were clad in jeans and were shirtless. They also had a couple of ladyboy servers.

On the two occasions that I visited, there were only a handful of customers. According to the staff I spoke to, the place tends to get crowded after midnight. They have a show at 1:30 am, which is apparently the same as the one at Wild West Boys. Compared to Boyz Town, Walking Street is so crowded, vibrant and lively. I'd love to see some gay-oriented palaces there. Who says boy bars have to be in gay ghettos? Let's hope they get some gay patronage so they don't revert to a girlie bar in the near future. Speaking of Wild West Boys, they'll be presenting their 'Mr. Cowboy Contest' on 29 January.

The Bondi (on Jomtien Beach) was packed, on 6 January, for their Three Kings Day charity event. The popular singers, Willie and Mandy, started things off; followed by the very sexy Nab Boy dancers, who really got the crowd worked up. The audience also reacted quite positively to the campy divas, Miss JJ; Glamour; Lucy Lastic and Dolly John. A raffle and 'handbag' auction netted 35,000 baht for the TAKE CARE!! charity.

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What is in a word?

By James Barnes

A deceptively simple question: how is being gay defined? The question was prompted by not so simple, semantics. Thai guys who have boyfriends often state, confusingly but emphatically, that they are, 'Not gay, I am a man.' It will take a lot of bonce scratching for the average farang to make sense of this statement but the answer is easy. It's all about plumbing. Pitching or catching as our American cousins would put it. Active or passive. Top or bottom. The sexual role.

Those Thai guys with boyfriends who declare that they are not gay are actually saying that they are pitchers, active, tops. Their catcher, passive, bottom partner is, 'gay.' Maybe this position derives from the tossed word salad that comes from the unfathomable bowl of Thai culture that is still overwhelmingly patriarchal despite the obvious dominatrix tendencies of Thai wives who seem to rule the domestic roost with iron marigolds. Throw in the various definitions of 'fem', ladyboy and katoey and your word salad is more hotly contended than Som Tam recipes in Issan. Moreover, if our top Thai guy is a man, what does that make a Thai guy with a wife? Ahead of you on the obvious answer there so don't bother!

So, what does it mean to be gay for farangs? Homosexual? Definitively not. The dictionary states that this is a same sex physical attraction. It makes no mention of an emotional dimension. Nothing about love and who wants to be sorely, solely defined by what they get up to between the sheets, in the darkroom or in the sauna? This is one instance where the 'Politically Correct Enforcement Brigade' has full permission to wade in, slap on the chrome cuffs and cart offenders off to the iron bar hotel. Gay men are homosexual but being homosexual is not being gay, or as the more modern activists may say, 'Queer.'

Some assert that being gay is a lifestyle. If they are more ignorant than the average Russian tourist in Pattaya, they will say it's a lifestyle choice. Lifestyle is a lazy, glib term made into a faux concept and fashionable in the 1980's (that's 30 years ago but haven't we all aged so beautifully?). Being gay is no more of a lifestyle than being straight. Lifestyle does not cut the mustard let alone the aioli.

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-- Pattaya One 2011-01-27