It’s all right for mama
The Bangkok Post had a supplement yesterday with this cover photo. Being gay is okay - in particular if you look like he does.
Inside is an article about parents coming to terms with gay or lesbian offspring. Mothers take it better than fathers, we learn.
Maybe I should write a book called “So Your Son Is Gay?”
Kids come out early these days. In the 2006 Bangkok Pride event a farang kid who looked like 14 was parading with a large rainbow flag. I could not tell if it was a boy or a girl, which kind of proves the point.
Parents need to know that if a son cries instead of fighting it only means he is sensitive and probably an artistic type, which is a good thing.
They should be told that pink is a great colour for all seasons, that a boy never can wear too many accessories and that everyone uses makeup these days. Advice on ballet classes and knitting should be welcome, along with an introduction to ABBA and disco bunnies.
Drag shows, muscle marys, saunas, gender change operations and the ethics of paying for it or getting paid for it should be covered.
I should also open a Drama Queen hotline for the emergencies and inevitable crisis. Dial 1 for a broken fingernail, dial 2 if your boyfriend left you, dial 3 if he is sleeping with your buddy, dial 4 if you are sleeping with his buddy, dial 5 if you sleep with both.
Tags: coming out, gay
May 9th, 2008 at 11:47 am
By all means open a Drama Queen hotline. Just remember BF crises happen at three in the morning.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
hahahahaha i like this blog;) two or three months ago the german ’stern’ had a title closed to this. ….but the cover sucked…..and the texts inside too wuahahahaha.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Hmmm….”Cries instead of fighting”? Some of us kinda LIKE fighting…Boxing gyms are full of gay boiz…we’re just harder to spot is all! ;P
May 9th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
OK, so what’s a muscle mary?
May 9th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
muscle mary = a gay man who likes to beef up his body by working out .. also known as a gym bunny.
I find it interesting that the Bankok Post showed a picture of a white boy. Thai boys are probably not really gay
They are corrupted into the glamour of it by gay farang boys.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Much of this blog is one big steriotype. There are some gay guys who would never wear make up in their life. What would be the use of liking a girl in a guys body? Doesn’t make sense. Just my opinion though. I guess I just like those manly men. Not attacking anyone here. I suppose we’re just all into different things
May 10th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Maybe your book should be titled “your son is soooo Gay!
May 10th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Dale, you prefer the steroid type?
May 10th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
No, Silom Farang,….although Dale can speak for himself, I think what he clearly said is that this ‘blog’ focuses on a rather narrow slice of the gay pie. Your site has changed focus considerably since I first began reading. Reading about Chalerm, seeing your outstanding photography, and reading the novel were the ‘hooks’ for me back then. I still hang-in there with you, somewhat, but am less and less interested these days. As Dale said, “not attacking….we’re just all into different things.”
May 10th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Me, I prefer no steroids, no make-up, no fakery at all… A nicely muscled, skilled Phillipino Light-middle weight with golden-brown muscles, no girlfriend and looks like Simba the Lion-cub will do me…Oops, hope my Sparring Partner isn’t reading this…or is….
) !!!
May 10th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Pronto: So you want more of the stuff that is hardest and most time consuming to do? OK, but where is my reward?
May 10th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Thanks, Whystler. I shudda bin able 2 figure that 1 out, huh?
May 11th, 2008 at 2:26 am
YES Silom, it hard to write a novel.
But we do miss it…
I enjoy hearing about “life” there. In BKK or KUL or Kota Kinablu. It is the adventure!!!
Do not get into the Ladyboys at the Net Cafe and the latest glamor gossip. OOPS, think that must be the OTHER blog…
Anyway… Reward? What reward? Just our appreciation and loyality..
May 11th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Reward!? You should get a reward for your hard work? Pff, don’t be silly. If we are under 30, we get everything free in life, and it must stay that way.
May 12th, 2008 at 2:46 am
ähm another short comment to the discussion above: sf please go on with the novel. it was so nice to read these storys while driving to work in train. i know that it is really hard to find time and the mood to write storys like that. but it is something you do well. the short stoys flashed me cause they were able to let me jump in the movie. so what revard do you want? isnt it revard enough that lots of people including a german 24 are sooooo happy to read new storys of bangkok and visa runs and crazy sweedish people?! best greetz
May 12th, 2008 at 2:57 am
In the interest of fairness and balance I should remind readers that the novel also contains crazy Brits, crazy Americans, crazy Germans, crazy Australians and crazy Thais.
Maybe Larson needs to go on another visa run?
May 12th, 2008 at 3:15 am
OHHHHH
Adventures of Larson in Kota Kinablu!!
Get him down the dark alley with the Pinoy Hunks!!
YES! YES!
May 13th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
The article was just a load of stereotypical bosh reinforcing the popular view of (Thai) ladyboys and Toms. In fact the gay guy looked so much like a girl that I thought the BKK Post got the captions wrong.