The LIST of GAY BARS and GOGO's in PATTAYA from 1980 till now

[Chuai-Duai]

I believe the bar with the fireman's pole was Kawaii or its predecessor at that location?

That's interesting. Kawaii was certainly very narrow like the original Wild West Boys. I just can't remember now if the two bars were the same place.

[Zebedee]

I believe the bar with the fireman's pole was Kawaii or its predecessor at that location?

I believe the pole with the fireman's helmet was mine,and it was definitely in the right location!

[pong]

Glad someone else remembers it. I think it was on the other side of the small Soi almost opposite the now closed Vassa Bar. I was taken there by a guy who had worked at "Tai Boys Boys" which had just closed. (Why did they spell it "Tai"?).

Most likely as there may have been a fair lot of hilltribeys from the TAI tribe. But thats just a guess. Or it was a pun. or it was-as so often happens, just a minor error of the painter/boardmaker.

[christianpfc]

789 Dragon, the short lived (2018-2019?) successor of Good Boys.

I once made a similar list for gay saunas in Bangkok (details on my blog). From over 40 that I found on the internet, about 30 were open when I made the list in 2016 (?), and now about 20 are left.

Whereas gay massage scene is thriving with more openings and closing than I can follow (only a side theater of war for me).

[pong]

789 Dragon, the short lived (2018-2019?) successor of Good Boys.

I once made a similar list for gay saunas in Bangkok (details on my blog). From over 40 that I found on the internet, about 30 were open when I made the list in 2016 (?), and now about 20 are left.

Whereas gay massage scene is thriving with more openings and closing than I can follow (only a side theater of war for me).

No, I am more into that branch but sadly have to report that there yes indeed, are an awful lot of closures and changes, by the month, but the total is slowly but quite surely reducing. But changes are even higher in number as for sauna+other combined. PLUS that it often seems that places close down for a few monthes or so, maybe if they cannot find willing guys and then reopen with replenished supply (often from VN or Cambodia nowawadys). of the 40+ such places Ive been to in BKK here at least 25 have bitten the dust already. That is-real m2m with that service assured, not the hybrid ones where you are never sure about what/whom/etc. in the Silom ghetto and that most often also have ladies-there yes they are multiplying. I mean those that you dispise as you cannot see outside who is working and available inside-for that they now all have LINE or so, so you do not even have to get out for nothing and can check it in your room.

[Marsilius]

"For Love": this one is very obscure and was very short lived. In, I'd guess, about the late 1990s/early 2000s, some entrepreneur decided to set up a gay go-go bar on Soi 6 (off Second Road, up towards Big C) - a road otherwise associated exclusively with girlie bars. Although it was fitted out quite attractively and employed about a dozen nice looking boys, it enjoyed no passing gay trade and I was always the only customer. It closed very quickly and had been so much a flash in the pan that when I looked for it on my next visit, the girls in the neighbouring bars all denied that there'd ever been a gay bar in the area at all..

[christianpfc]

G-U-Y gay bar on Walking Street, estimated 2015-2017. It closed before Wild West Boys closed, one of the boys I fancied in G-U-Y worked in Wild West Boys afterwards. I have picture of the bar somewhere, I think in Thai it was spelled letter-by-letter (as indicated in English by the dashes). I don't remember if it was gogo or beer bar with show, the boys used to be shirtless but in jeans outside.

[Oliver2]

There's a clip on YouTube....very brief...showing guys in jeans outside the bar and a femme guy dancing.

[Chuai-Duai]

G-U-Y gay bar on Walking Street, estimated 2015-2017.

I tried to go in once but the music was so LOUD I came away before I even got through the door.

[Wolzek]

G-U-Y gay bar on Walking Street, estimated 2015-2017. It closed before Wild West Boys closed

G-U-Y bar closed in November or December 2013. I know because I was on holiday in Pattaya in December that year with the intention of visiting that bar but could not find it in Walking street. A few days later I was in Wild west boys and was told by the staff there that G-U-Y had just closed shortly before my arrival and many of the boys were relocated to Wild west boys. I think it was a very short-lived bar, 6 months maybe?