“Chalerm” has been on television twice more. He did not know about it beforehand. Channel 3 seems to have made a mini-series out of him and the military issue.
Surprise: The TV station is paying him 1000 B to be interviewed.
Tomorrow Chalerm will go to the Ministry of Defence again. This time subject is what to put in their military books once “permanent mental illness” is dropped. The big shots will there again of course. I expect the happy ending to be on TV too.
Chalerm says the reason his name didn’t appear in the Bangkok Post report was that the reporter thought Chalerm was shy and wanted remain anonymous. Bugger that, says Chalerm, who has been out of the closet since he was five. 
Yes, I am proud of him. Chalerm is almost 22 now. He has changed from the barefoot village kid I first met to a Bangkok lobbyist in just three years. He is growing up to become the great person I knew he could be.
September 5th, 2005 at 4:41 am
Cool!
But what will they put in instead of “permanent mental illness”? Maybe “non permanent sexual disorientation”?