Jomtien Complex - Rainbow painting

[Dodger]

I took a look at JC this morning...barricades up to stop traffic...80% of the main soi already painted white...glad to hear they will apply rainbow colors.

Two years of sitting idle and they pick this time to paint the street???

I hope the paint's dry before they start serving drinks again. Watching one of our senior citizens sliding around on wet paint with a rainbow stenciled on his forehead would be a bit embarrassing for the bar owners.

[Gaybutton]

Two years of sitting idle and they pick this time to paint the street???

I was wondering the same thing. While it may be a nice touch, after all these years I am also wondering who found it necessary to do this at all. Why? And why now?

I am also wondering if any of the businesses objected to it. Restaurants, massages, and even hotels are not necessarily exclusively gay, but rainbow colors are not likely to attract much of the straight crowd.

It would be great, though, if this is a prelude to go-go bars permitted in the complex. To this day I still question whether there really are any ordinances against them. I've never seen any kind of law forbidding them and I don't know anyone, including bar owners, who ever has. Where does it actually say that go-go bars are verboten in Jomtien Complex?

[goji]

rainbow colors are not likely to attract much of the straight crowd.

A fair question.
However, if it deters more non gay "music bars" from invading the soi, that's a positive.