Articles - Bangkok, Thailand

Your old heroine can still be spontaneous, last Saturday morning she called the Malaysia hotel in Bangkok and made a reservation for that very night. Occupation of hotels all over Thailand is not very high these days, so one even can get a room at normally so well booked Malaysia at short notice for a dirty weekend. (Sorry, Eduard, to have borrowed your term “dirty weekend” without paying any royalties, but it really describes the plan so accurately.) Suzy Size grabbed her tooth brush, the shaver, some condoms, a shirt and one underwear and off she was in the drivers seat. Read more

Muskboy was born in China. Love brought him to Berlin and love made him go away from his nation and culture. Being gay, he could not accept the suppressing and hateful reproaches of his native countrymen. He refused to live in hiding, among people intolerant of the way he was naturally. Read all about this remarkable Chinese painter here on Sticky Rice Gay Guide Asia and Gay Guide World and visit his unique exhibit in Bangkok. Read more

Irish-born and British-trained Don is a humanistic therapist who has developed a model of therapy from Client Centred Counselling and Gestalt Therapy Theory. With nearly twenty years experience, Don can support people with issues such as low self esteem, anxiety, problematic relationships, drug and alcohol problems, sexuality issues, dealing with a traumatic event, HIV, or a sense of ‘I just don’t know what to do’. Don has a specialisation in working with gay men, sexual health and relationships. Read more

The guy started by washing her feet, then massaging them. He was very good at it. Slight back ground music to relax. Bit by bit he worked himself up the legs of Suzy. This guy was excellent with a magic touch and extremely big hands and – boy – he had especially big fingers. Suzy got a hard on. Did he notice? Read more

My last cultural come out to Bangkok was for the wonderful “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” of Swiss ballet troupe. I so much enjoyed it so gave myself promise to conjoin more often the world of art. At the very same evening announce of the upcoming “Cats” show was tucked into my car. I didn’t had chance to watch this iconic performance earlier and immediately decided to use the opportunity. Read more

We had less and less sex together, became one of those old couples. But our dogs seemed to have more and more sex. Several were born and several died. All the pet poodles, thank God. I never had a problem being gay, but had a problem showing this very fact through possession of pet poodles. Read more

When Suzy heard the news she was thrilled: The famous Zurich Opera Ballet was to perform in Bangkok with “A Midsummer Night`s Dream”. It was obvious, our lazy heroine had to leave her comfortable beach chair in Jomtien gay beach for once and just had to head to Bangkok immediately where she arrived a few days before opening night. She was going to write articles concerning this monumental performance for several papers and media (like Sticky Rice Gay Guide World) and therefore had access to the rehearsals at Thailand Cultural Centre. Read more

Even though I drive my own car in gay Thailand, I hesitate to do it in greater Bangkok and clearly on my way home from the gay Bangkok night life. I might just have had a beer too many in all those Bangkok gay bars. The traffic in the City of Angels is just horrific and I am, admittedly, a lousy driver who never knows how wide his car really is. Read more

Even though you are living in gay Pattaya, the necessity may arise to visit the capital of Thailand once in a while - then combine this visit with having another look at the night life of gay Bangkok. Since most of the gay bars, gay go-gos, gay massage parlors and gay discos are located in the Silom and Suriwong area, it is advisable to search for suitable accommodation right there. Try the new gay hotel in Bangkok, it is very well located. Read more

Arriving in gay Bangkok is so civilized (compared to gay Manila, you know what I mean...). You just walk up to the arrivals of the new airport building and wave down a Taxi. It is so convenient and cheap. Twenty minutes later you are enjoying the warm welcome from the boys in the lobby of gay Tarntawan Place and you know you are in good hands (and I mean very good-nudge, nudge). But advance booking is advisable since you are not the only gay traveler to Bangkok that has ever stayed or been laid there - and those that stay once stay again if they visit gay Bangkok.

Driving from my home in Pattaya to gay Bangkok is really a pain in the ass. The bottleneck on the way to Silom (where the action and gay heaven is located in Bangkok) starts early and ends two hours later at Tarntawan Place, this unique gay Bangkok hotel being the only good thing that can be said about bloody gay Bangkok. Read more

Being a gay journalist in the rainy season of Bangkok is guaranteed to produce the wettest prose of the year. Mine was sodden by the time this issue had rolled around and I was dying to get to some retreat. I had a phone call from Lao Aviation to say there had been some glitch with my ticket to gay Luang Prabang. I asked the young man where their office was in Bangkok. He ran off to find help and then the line went dead. Anyway, I did what all farangs in the know in Bangkok (gay or not gay) do, I called 1155 for Tourist Information. The young woman online was just so cheery I felt like puking in the fake philodendron in the lobby of the Narai from whence I was phoning. She eventually informed me Lao Aviation was in the Silom Plaza, where about three gay sauna or massage places are located. Good. Not far away. I could even walk. Read more

So anyway darling, as soon as we got the news, for some reason I immediately thought of the Tarntawan Hotel in Bangkok. We had such a lovely time there and so I’ve booked a flight to Bangkok from Vancouver next week and you must fly in by this weekend. Ursula doesn’t seem to relish a trip right now so we’ll go together, just you and me, mother and son, just like old times. Read more

The Bangkok Pride Festival is on this week. Besides some sporting events coming week the Bangkok Pride (Gay) Festival is culminating next weekend with Pride in the Park upcoming Saturday (November 4) and the Pride Parade from 4 pm onwards Sunday (November 5) at the traditional site in Silom area. For details you can go to: www.pridefestival.org

You both like shopping. You enjoy his happiness when you buy him what he didn’t dare to ask for… The more money you spend for him, the more Lek feels like a prostitute, the more he wants to look like a young salary man in black pants and white shirt… Read more

“Did you see that pretty flag dear?” mother asked as I eyed the contours of the bellboy taking our luggage. I cringed. Yes, I had seen the rainbow flag fluttering in the breeze on Surawong. But I didn’t think mother would. Read more

Well those generals make the life of reporters in Bangkok extremely hard. Where is the excitement? Only in a very few places can one spot any soldiers. If we had not heard from the media that there was a coup we would hardly know at all. Is this a bad joke or what? Have we been taken for a ride? Read more

Dick's Cafe Bangkok is very pleased that Khun Somkiat Sae-sue, Tee, is returning for a second show after last year's very successful exhibition. Color Figure is a study of the male body in vibrant colors. Not to be missed. Till October 12th. Read more

I thought, I’ll go to the Malaysia like in the old days. Even though I reckoned they would most probably be fully booked, I tried my luck, I was in that area anyhow. Read more

Cockroaches had always been a bane each and every time we stayed in this particular Hotel, but this time we were in for an absolute windfall. A beastly account by a reader about his latest and probably last stay at a well known Bangkok Hotel. Read more

Artist Suchart Phumkhed (Aek) who is 27years old and comes from Roiet in Isaan has another exhibition at Dick’s Cafe Bangkok. Visit the show before it ends June 7. Read more