Current gay scene situation in Malaysia

[spoon]

In light of recent development of multiple hot issues surrounding lgbt in malaysia, i feel i need to give some updates on what I perceive happens to the places i visit and those in the news as well. There are several postings already about the famous blueboy bar being raided as well as lgbt activist poster being removed as well as the canning, so i wont be talking about those.

 

Anyway, even before these issues becoming a hot topic of discussion, gay scene here has always been subdued and relatively underground. Nevertheless we have lgbt artists, icons, activist, that is still free to talk, not being arrested etc. And even those illegal act of gay massage centers, gay saunas, gay boy for hire exists but not in the open. Some of these places were "protected" under previous government where corruption is rampant. When we have new government, the enforcement have a major reform, corrupt police leaders were seen resigning from their posts, and thus starts a "cleaning sweep" process where area/premises who used to be "giving bribe" are no longer safe. However, raids is not unusual here. From time to time, raids do happens, and mostly those who were caught are illegal immigrants workers and the owner if they dont have permit to run such businesses they claim they run.

 

Anyway, ive heard some raids was done and in a different local forum have noted some of my regulars were being sent home. First raids was around end of May this year, at sempurna avenue, then i heard freshm2m cheras got raided too, and bbboy(aroma) which got raided, closed and move upstairs, and got raided second time that leads to the closure of their websites. Weirdly enough, their private IG, still updates new boys picture, so even if i haven't tried contacting them, pretty sure they are still around. Both freshm2m are still in operation albeit with much less boys around now. Sempurna is still in operation too with actually more boys, many locals now.

 

Onto sauna, since sauna here arent usually have workers providing sex/massage, as of now, ive yet heard any raids. And no other bars being raided too, other than the one mentioned above. Having said that, i am not a sauna goer nor a bar goer, so i cant say how the situation currently. But generally, a lot of us are toning down on our visits to these premises, and switching to freelancer on the apps or those who used to work at center and now freelancing. In fact, i can see more and more MBs are switching to apps too.

 

Just want to say it is not all gloomy here. Also, i am a regular massage goer here and to get good quality massage, i always goes to a legit mixed massage centers that have male masseurs on their staff (something similar to prime massage). The two that i always go to are chain massage center called healthland(thai) and reborn(tui na). While the possibility of HE is close to zero, massage wise are always good at least from my experience and sometimes they do carry some cute masseurs too.

[DivineMadman]

thanks for setting all this out so clearly.  very informative.