Here's something Henry might like
The Denouement after the last youtube clip
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAoNDihnfbc&feature=PlayList&p=64220A531D6 6BC1D&index=3[/youtube]
SF is great, except for the sex life
Well, kenc, how would you define a "Gay Mecca?"
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But is a "Gay Mecca" only measured by the avaliability of easy/cheap sex?
Well, that's certainly one thing to take into consideration. I spent five lonely years in San Francisco. You say that that's all my fault, but try to forget your defensive crouch for a moment. My BOYFRIEND also spent five lonely years in San Francisco. At the end of the third year, as a devastatingly cute Thai boy, he was simply boiling over with enthusiasm to get back to Thailand. I guess that was all his fault, too.
You say, with the same breath, that SF is extraordinarily tolerant of gays, and yet admit that bf and I got a lot of hostile glares in the Castro. Your comment, "Well, aren't queens the same everywhere?"
No. They may be the same all over America, but the situation in Thailand is utterly different. In Chiang Mai, if I go walking around with my bf (who looks about 16 but is now 23 going on 24) I may get one or two glances from Thai people, who quickly return to their own business when they see & realize that we have known one another forever, are very comfortable in one another's company, and so on. The real Glares come from @Fat White Cows, who sometimes even Glare at me walking around by myself! I used to wonder about that, until I realized that there was an entire @Fat White Cow community dedicated to the proposition that all single men living in Thailand are Evil.
Sometimes, particularly clueless hippie farang backpacker boys give me the Glare, also, if they see me with my boyfriend. Amazing...even if they are Swedish....maybe Political Correctness trumps Freedom.
Anyway, kenc, I think you are a great contributor to this board, and even though you stated something like, "Henry is a clueless idiot," cheers! After all, I live HERE and you live THERE. :-) :-) :-) :-)
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What exactly is your point Henry?
Ok I get it. You didn't like San Francisco. Chiang Mai is your little piece of heaven.
And so....??
Sure, I'll be the first to admit if you're a 60 year old guy looking for sex with lots of cute asian guys this is not the place for you. This is NOT Thailand and you won't find the same kind of thing here, or anywhere in the west except maybe Amsterdam.
And yes, if you are not of a Liberal frame of mind politically you will not have a good time here either any more than I would have a nice time in, oh I dunno, Houston or Salt Lake City.
When I think about what you posted I realize you could be a poster child for all those dot.com'ers that blew into town in the 90's. A lot of them came here thinking they were Masters of the Universe and were going to change the world and make a shitload of money to boot. Instead of coming to embrace the local culture they brought their own little bubble of whatever with them and stayed in it all the time they were here. They buried themselves in their work and when they did come up for air I found them not to be very "fun" to be around.
And when the bubble popped some were able to cash out with oodles of money but all of them just left without making a mark on the culture and with the rest of us scratching out heads wondering what it was all about.
And I say again, anyone who didn't have fun when they were here only have themselves to blame (esp with all the money they were making).
I realize not everyone who comes here is going to like it. Your Thai boyfriend might have done better in LA with it's large Thai expat community - though I doubt you would have had much fun in West Hollywood.
And not everyone who goes to Chiang Mai is going to like it there either.
Oh and BTW, I never said you were "a clueless idiot". I said you were a nut.
And politically I still think you are. :geek: