Posted on 03/19/2005 7:42:41 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Phuket Gay Festival set to earn Bt100 million
PHUKET, March 19, (TNA) – The pink baht will help revive the tsunami-damaged tourism industry on the southern island of Phuket next month when over 5,000 homosexuals from across the world descend on the island for the province’s 6th annual Gay Festival.
According to Mr. Chanok Kaewsrinual, head of the Phuket Gay Association, the festival on Patong Beach on 7-10 April will include a range of events, including the unmissable drag parade.
This year the event will take on particular significance, as it will be seen as a means of reviving the island’s tourism industry in the wake of the December tsunami.
Already publicized across the world, the event is likely to attract over 5,000 participants, bringing the province revenue of no less than Bt100 million.
Pol. Col. Theeraphol Thipcharoen, superintendent of Kathu district police station, also noted that the event was important to help Phuket shrug off its unearned image as a destination for sex tourists, including those engaging in underage sex with young rent boys.
According to the police superintendent, child prostitution in fact does not occur anywhere in Phuket. (TNA)--E006
?????? I am lost here.
I'm with you. How does a gay drag parade help the town escape a reputation of male prostitution? Must be an error in translation.
I'm hoping they have some of those new industrial grade STDs that many of these fellows will bring home to help wipe out this terrible disease all over the world.
Yeah, and I'm Mahatma Ghandi.
THAILAND, a beacon of the sex industry?! I'm shocked!! Gambling in Casablance? I'm shocked!
Prostitution, adultery, pimping, pornography, promiscuity, pedofilia, pederasty, sadism-masochism, bondage, dominance-submission, child pornpgraphy and prositution (girls and boys), AIDS, -- all with a flavor of homosexualty, bisexualtiy, transgender-ality??
They call it a "festival"??? That WOULD be a CELEBRATION of the aforementioned activities.
I'm not lost.
Thailand leads the world in its very own brand of AIDS (There are some 30 distictly different, area-specific kinds of AIDS viruses, changing and becoming ever-resistant as we speak.), heterosexual and infecting some 80% of the female prostitutes.
And it's all wrapped up in a "charity" event to "help" the tsunami victims.
Now THAT is a wonderful job of sales and p.r., innit? MARVELOUS selling techniques.
As I understand it a Bt is worth appoximately five cents.
To be fair to Thailand they have tried to deal with illegal activities as best they can. They havea the best economy in the area and put their neighbours to shame in terms of living conditions. Predators looking for easy prey go to Cambodia or Laos now.
Prositituion is open in Thailand but you must be 18 to engage in it even though the age limit is 15 for sex. Thailand is not what it was ten years ago.
Still I do not know what image they are going to promote with this brilliant idea. Do you think some of the Democrat marketing team has spread their good work abroad?
To quote Larry the Cable Guy: "Now that's funny. I don't care who you are."
Where's a 2nd tsunami when you need one?
And we are supplying 500 billion to rebuild their playground.
Nothin a box jellyfish couldnt cure
I was thinking the same thing.
There'll be another one a comin' if these "festivals" keep rearing their ugly heads.
the police superindendent saying that child sex tourism and child prostitution doesnt exist anywhere in phuket haaaaaaaaaahhhhhh what a load of bull crap that sort of thing is everywhere in thailand.
the police superindendent saying that child prostitution doesnt exist anywhere in phuket haaaaaaaaaahhhhhh what a load of bull crap that sort of thing is everywhere in thailand.
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