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For Lesbians, the Party Never Stopped in Bangkok
The New York Times ^
| December 31, 2006
| Megan Cossey
Posted on 12/31/2006 4:47:45 PM PST by NJRighty
ON the night of Sept. 19, military leaders in Thailand suspended the constitution, seized control of Bangkok and imposed martial law. Someone forgot to tell the lesbians.
Several nights after the nonviolent coup, a crush of cheering women crowded around the stage at Shela, a lesbian nightclub near the city's major downtown park, Lumpini, where a popular singer, Palmy, was performing. Fans crammed the balcony, imported whiskey was flowing at every table and a lone tom, local slang for a butch lesbian, was dancing by herself behind the pool table.
Coup or not, it was just another night out for Bangkok's puying rak puying, or women who love women.
Five years ago, this scene would have been unthinkable. Lesbians either met each other at non-gay establishments or through word-of-mouth parties and restaurants. But thanks to the rapidly expanding Thai Internet, and a growing number of younger, more self-possessed lesbians, two nightclubs and several weekly parties catering exclusively to lesbians have opened in Bangkok in the past two years.
(Excerpt) Read more at travel.nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; homosexualagennda; lesbian; liberalagenda; nytimes; thailand; thighland
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If the New York Times is going to publish this alledgedly newsworthy article, couldn't they at least mention the irony of lesbians gathering in a town called Bangkok?
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posted on
12/31/2006 4:47:47 PM PST
by
NJRighty
To: NJRighty
a crush of cheering women crowded around the stage at Shela, a lesbian nightclub near the city's major downtown park, Lumpini, where a popular singer, Palmy, was performing. Naah. Too easy.
To: NJRighty
Do we have a Bangkok ping? . . . . anyone?
Bueller?
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posted on
12/31/2006 4:49:37 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rear view mirror.)
To: BipolarBob
To: NJRighty
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posted on
12/31/2006 4:50:50 PM PST
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: NJRighty
Confucius say: Thai man going sideways thru turnstile is surely going to Bangkok!
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posted on
12/31/2006 4:54:10 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(Tagline wanted...inquire within)
To: NJRighty
Fans crammed the balcony, imported whiskey was flowing at every table and a lone tom, local slang for a butch lesbian, was dancing by herself behind the pool table.
Must destroy image!!!
(pushing fists into eyeballs)
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posted on
12/31/2006 4:55:57 PM PST
by
MAexile
(Bats left, votes right)
To: NJRighty
we have
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posted on
12/31/2006 4:56:31 PM PST
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: NJRighty
One hundred years ago, Thailand would've been a center of the slave trade. Now that we're 'civilized', slave trading has become the sex industry, and the 'everything goes' mentality that goes with it.
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posted on
12/31/2006 4:58:09 PM PST
by
Spok
(He who bites the hands that feeds him will lick the boot that kicks him.)
To: MAexile
I get a mental image of boots, flannel, suspenders, and short hair.
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posted on
12/31/2006 4:58:46 PM PST
by
SIDENET
(Everybody was kung-fu fighting)
To: JRios1968
One night in Bankok makes the hard man humble, if the Murray Head song is to be believed.
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posted on
12/31/2006 5:06:05 PM PST
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: SIDENET
Add motorcycles and tattoos.
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posted on
12/31/2006 5:08:46 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: Spok
This is what happens to the little girls after the foreign pedophiles are done with them.
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posted on
12/31/2006 5:12:26 PM PST
by
donna
To: alieno nomine; angkor; Brian Allen; bsariwat; Central Scrutiniser; Fielding; Flash Bazbeaux; ...
Thai Ping
Sorry for the degradation of pinging you to a New York Slimes based article.
I'll check out that "Shela" bar when I'm there next month so you won't have to.
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posted on
12/31/2006 5:14:23 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
To: lesser_satan
I need some pictures to know if this is a worthwhile story or not.
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posted on
12/31/2006 5:18:15 PM PST
by
Azzurri
To: lesser_satan; NJRighty; KayEyeDoubleDee
we have RULES! Hear, hear!
To: Azzurri
Yep. If it's Billy Jean King-type lesbianism, not worthwhile. If, on the other hand, it's Miss Nevada-type lesbianism, WE NEED PICS!
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posted on
12/31/2006 5:28:39 PM PST
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: NJRighty
"puying rak puying" I'm getting this mental image that is probably one that I should really do without.
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posted on
12/31/2006 5:30:48 PM PST
by
Desron13
(If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
To: NJRighty
ROFL. Oh thank you for a year end laugh.
Happy New Year my good friend Freepers.
The Free Republic, an island of sanity amidst an insane world.
God bless, keep, and preserve us all.
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posted on
12/31/2006 5:38:00 PM PST
by
garyhope
(It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
To: MAexile
Must destroy image!!! (pushing fists into eyeballs)Picture this - Rosie O'Donald.
(Sorry. I must have a mean streak in me. Ew!)
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