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Yangon
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369 club
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every sunday nights gay friendly theme parties at 369 club at 10pm till 2am.
trendy place with fashionable crowd of yangon young trendy gay boys & drags |
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369 club, thein gyi zay market
at the end of shwedagon pagoda road & anawratha road....downtown on the main street of thein gyi zay (opposite mingalar cinema) |
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Mandalay
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Taungbyone Gay Festival
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This year I again attended the Nat Festival at Taungbyone outside of Mandalay. This year, 2009, all of the buses from Yangon to Mandalay were sold out, as was the train. Our hotel room had several sleeping on the floor too!
This is the largest Gay Festival in all of Asia and is held yearly about 20km north of Mandalay, for a whole week! It is held the last part of July or in August, the six days leading up and including the full Moon, 5th Lunar month.
Thousands of people from all over Myanmar came to celebrate the Taungbyone Nats. Taungbyone is a religious ceremony to honor two Moslem brothers on the grounds of a Buddhist temple through the Nat celebrations! It is however in fact largely a gay festival. Almost all Nats in Myanmar are gay. Also many fake gay Nats show up to join in the party!
For six days people dance, eat, and drink. The area is covered with food stands and vender stalls selling everything from house ware to souvenirs. Dance groups cover the area performing all day and into the night. For six days people dance, eat, and drink. During the day and most of the night the different Nat spirits hold performances, each trying to outdo the other.
While the whole festival, day and night, is openly gay the ‘real events’ for gay folks start at night. While the Nat ceremonies continue gays openly come out and hold hands and kiss and walk around with their arms around each other, or go off to sleeping quarters! Many are known to discover a neighbor, or fellow student there they were unaware of!
This year we went as part of the assembly that accompanied one of the well-known Yangon Nats to Taungbyone so we got in on the activities first hand, and on the main stage of the ceremony. The most touching moment was during a Nat ceremony when a father and mother brought their 16 year old son and presented him to the Nat. This is a traditional Myanmar ceremony of dealing with a son that the parents have recognized as gay. Everyone in the audience started crying and applauding while the Nat performed the acceptance ceremony.
I highly recommend this festival to all. Because of the ‘night activities’ and because of the day time heat the best time is to go to the festival about 6:30 pm. The traffic by that time has also thinned out. Just take a motor bike out to the festival. There is plenty of transportation back into Mandalay later. |
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Restaurants
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Yangon
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365 Cafe
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365 CAFÉ: Next door to the Thamada Hotel, in front of the Rail Road Station, is a new 24 hour café named 365 CAFE. Western and Asian food and drink. In fact this is the breakfast cafe for the hotel too. A good place to grab something to eat before heading back to your hotel. This place is always busy as you will see the teenages of the new Myanmar middle class here in numbers. You will also see many gay Myanmar and Western fellows here. Several of the waiters are gay. |
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Yangon
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ABC Country Pub
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ABC COUNTRY PUB A great spot just east of City Hall that has a live “country and western” band. Food excellent and the drinks strong. Sometimes there are some cute waiters there. |
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Yangon
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Aung Thukha
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AUNG THUKHA Traditional Myanmar Food - Where the locals eat. Have a driver or friend take you there. Everyone knows where it is. Tel: 525194. |
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Yangon
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Chinese Restaurant
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The CHINESE RESTAURANT on the first floor of the Asia Plaza Hotel on Bogyoke Aung San Road at 38th Street [enter through the hotel lobby] serves the local community. The food and service is the best! |
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Yangon
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Golden Duck
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GOLDEN DUCK Several around but the one on the river near the jetty to cross the river is my favorite. Great view and atmosphere. Really cute waiters which you can see later bathing outside at the far end of the restaurant! |
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Yangon
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Lavender
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LAVENDER serves Myanmar, Korean and Taiwan food. Later in the evening gay and lesbian couples show up. No. 179/181 Botataung Pagoda Road [east of city hall about four blocks] Tel; 95-1-295 090 Gay Friendly |
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Yangon
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Monsoon
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MONSOON serves Myanmar, Thai, Vietnam, and Cambodian food. Expensive but the food is good and waiters cute. 85-87 Theinbyu Road, lower block, Botataung [east of city hall about six blocks] Tel; 95-1-295 224, 705063. Very gay friendly |
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Yangon
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Ritz Cafe
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The RITZ CAFE is a short walking distance over the rail lines from downtown Yangon. Address: No. 296/1 Shwedagon Pagoda Road, Dagon Twp. Tel: 253680 and 243934. This is a small quiet place for food, drink, and talk. Western and Asian food. Very gay friendly. |
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Yangon
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Zawgy House
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ZAWGYI HOUSE on Bogyoke Aung San Road, 20 steps from the Bogyoke Aung Sand Market is a delightful restaurant with a creative French - Myanmar menu and an art gallery. Very cold beer too! |
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