When I first started looking into a trip to Thailand, I searched the web for information and over a few days of searching I came across a web forum that has long since faded. I asked my questions and was told that Thai people don't like black people and that on and on. I received a private PM from a person from the board that told me to ignore all the crap they were telling me. He told me that I would have a great time in Thailand. I asked him about the advice that I would not be welcome because I was black, he told me that I would be treated like a celebrity because not many black Americans visit Thailand. He went on to tell me that it will be likely that I will be the only gay black American in Pattaya and Bangkok if I go during the off season and they would welcome me with open arms.
I went and he was right. Sometimes I received too much attention and it made me become more timid and shy. On my first trip I was hit on by a taxi driver, was checking into a hotel the same time as a cute asian guy next to me. When I was given my room key, he looked over at me and his first and only words to me was asking me what room I was given. I told him and once I was in the room my phone was ringing..
Even when I went to gogo bars, they guys who typically sold sex would show me too much attention and whisper that they would have sex with me for free. I never took them up on their offer because I no you don't get something for nothing and I feared they were expecting an experience that I didn't have the skill to deliver. Also, they may not have been my type. I am a bottom and I tend to attract other bottoms. Now don't get me wrong, there are LOTS of HOT Top guys in Thailand, but a lot of top guys think I am a top and won't play with me unless there is a 3rd party around that can confirm to them that I am a bottom but that does not happen too often.
So when I am on a forum and I see guys getting bad advice, I will send them a private message telling them what I know to be the truth and I will try to leave out my own prejudices and if there is something I don't know I will tell them I don't know.