Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Although the two seem to be mutually exclusive, in the more tolerant lands of islam such as Malaysia and especially Indonesia, gay people can live without fear of being stoned to death or something like that. That's progress. As a gay Asian one just has to have a practical approach to quick ...
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
From Wikipedia, after it has sung the glories of fabulous flutsville: "Historically, Pattaya has had comparatively high levels of crime, sometimes attributed to organised crime in, and preying on, the sex industry as well as the easy availability of tourist cash in a country that had a per capita Gross ...
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
The Donald Duck voice in the video tries to tell us something about gay life in Kandahar, but the voice is so grating I cannot make heads or tails of it. But some of the boys in the video look cute. I've heard and read stories before about Taliban fighters taking male adolescents ...
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
In Thailand bigger goes first, so when you cross the road you better beware. That motorcycle racing towards you thinks it has right of way. And of course the motorcycle has to give right of way to the car, and so forth. It's street law. I'm still amazed after all ...
Monday, February 25th, 2008
I can't put my finger on Burma, as far as gay life and the law are concerned. I've been there a few times, and the very first night ever, a guy from the hotel took me around town. I hinted that I was gay, and the evening ended with him giving ...
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
There's an article in Wikipedia on homosexuality in China. I find the entry a bit strange here and there with sentences like: "the government is ... doing nothing to promote the situation of homosexuality in China" and "The authorities still refuse to promote ... gay issues". Why do these things need to be "promoted"? ...
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
A while ago Asia Sentinel had an interesting article about how music, the mafia and the police are all intertwined in a web of corruption in Hongkong. Meanwhile poor Edison has resigned from his career, but interesting reading nonetheless....
raising questions over everything from intellectual property theft to police overprotection of ...
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
I guess they like it no more or less than anyone else. Right now we have the gay Asian boys fighting it out in Thailand: "Chalerm Yubamrung accuses Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanond of being a homosexual" (Windy City Times 1988). Well, everybody in Thailand knows that. Chalerm is on the same side ...
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Taiwan seems to be one of the more progressive countries in Asia when it comes to gay rights. It has a pride parade, gay rights activits, and if I remember correctly it, is the first country in Asia to have legalized same sex marriage. Alas, I can't find anything about ...
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
This is a bit of a mixed bag of a blog and it needs to find its tone, as far as gay Asian issues are concerned. While I ponder that, I'd like to refer you to Exploration Into Asian Gay Culture & Politics, available from Amazon. It discusses queer gay ...