Bars closed today - as long as it was gay bars

[Gaybutton]

Kao Pansa, the three month period of Buddhist Lent, began today, July 11. As is almost always the case during a religious holiday, the gay bars were all closed this evening.

 

My boyfriend and I were in the Sunee Plaza area, in our car, and we were able to drive right through Sunee Plaza at about 8:45 PM. All the bars were dark and the street was nearly empty, except for a few wandering boys trolling for "farang" that might not have been aware that the bars would all be closed today.

 

Now, in keeping with "What's wrong with this picture?", we were just passing through the area because we dropped off one of his friends at his apartment, very close to Sunee Plaza. We then were going out to dinner in North Patttaya. We drove up Second Road.

 

Many of you are aware of all the girlie bars in North Pattaya. Many were also closed, but plenty of them were wide open and filled with customers, as usual.

 

Now, maybe I'm wrong, but I was under the impression the bars close because the police go around a night or two before and instruct the bars to remain closed on certain occasions. Are these bar closings restricted only to the gay bars? As far as I could tell, all the gay bars were closed throughout Pattaya. I'm wondering why the gay bars have to close, but the girlie bars are allowed to remain open. There were too many of them open for it to be chalked up to a few bars defying police orders. We saw no police officers trying to get the open girlie bars to close. As a matter of fact, we saw no police officers at all. We didn't even see any police officers stopping helmetless motorcycle drivers.

 

Why is that?

[Guest Hedda]

My guess, and it's nothing more than that, is that many girlie bars are open on such holidays for the same reason many girlie bars had girls dancing naked when the police were on one of their social crusades, making boy dancers dress in pajamas.

 

There does seem to be a reluctance on the part of gay bars to confront the police in any way, whether it means forgoing naked or "dirty dancing", or flaunting the law on closings. In that regard. the girls seem to have much bigger balls.

 

Could it be that this society, which so many farangs think is utterly tolerant when it comes to sexual preference, applies different standards to straights and gays. Perish the thought !

[Gaybutton]

Could it be that this society, which so many farangs think is utterly tolerant when it comes to sexual preference, applies different standards to straights and gays. Perish the thought !

 

It does seem discriminatory, especially considering the fact that the girlie bars are allowed to open much earlier in the day than the gay go-go bars are.

 

Today's PATTAYA CITY NEWS has an interesting article:

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Beer Bars around Pattaya Told to Smarten-Up and Cover-Up by Pattaya City Hall

 

At Pattaya City Hall, Khun Wootisuk, Deputy Mayor of Pattaya assembled a selected group of Beer Bar Owners to discuss plans to assist the city in cleaning-up its image as local government strive to change the image of Pattaya in an attempt to transform it into a family resort.

 

It was mentioned that the local government are not happy with the image portrayed by open air beer bars and would like the bar owners to tell employees to cover-up and use polite language when conversing with tourists.

 

All too often, Pattaya is mentioned by others as a place where foreigners come for sex and it is this that the local government would like to change, however they do acknowledge the presence of the industry but would like these changes to Beer Bar operation which is the visible aspect of Pattaya

[Guest jomtien]

The same gay bars that were open on past holidays were open again the other night. In the boyztown vicinity. All you have to do is walk down a couple streets to find them.