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Yeah, I just discovered it by chance on libgenesis. if anyone is interested reading the book they can message me directly and I can provide the link for downloading the book for free. I'm sure you and others who have lived those years would also find interesting the chapters about Thailand and Japan, the other two Asian countries he covers in that book. Personally I also found amusing his chapter about Montevideo, which is a city I plan to visit this August. Was his English name Sam Sasha by any chance? The author mentions meeting this guy called by that name, who had studied at the University of Texas and in Germany and who had written a book called 25 questions about homosexuality and another one that was a compilation of Chinese historical documents about same-sex love, but never provides the name of the latter book. Yes and I think for the better. I belong to another generation so have known only the HK of the last 10 years but reading that book didn't match the impression of some people in here of how good the old times in HK were compared to nowadays. Honestly, I'm quite happy to be able to discover HK and other Asian cities during these times compared to 30-40, or I would say even 20 years ago.

I was just reading last week this book called "Out in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok" by Neil Miller where he covers different countries in 6 continents. It's not really a travel guide but each reads more like a magazine report about gay life and community in each country. The book was published in 1992, so is definitely outdated but it contains some interesting historical information and descriptions. Tbh, his chapter about HK has a bit of gloomy tone. He mentions the two establishments you quote: Disco Disco (who he claims that people just call it "the disco") and Waltzing Matilda (same as you he mentions the bar was of dubious character and that it attracts teenage gangs and their girlfriends). He also mentions another bar called the Dateline (and which is called just "the bar") around the corner of the Disco. According to him, the bar tends to be quite segregated between Chinese and Westerners. Here, he meets Julian Chan who he claims is the most important and probably the only gay activist in HK. He is the founder of the Ten Percent Club, the only gay club in HK. He mentions the same guy again when the author visits Bangkok for the Third Asian Lesbian and Gay Conference. A letter written by Julian informs the participants about the decriminalization of homosexuality in HK. The vote he says was 31-13. The chapter of HK ends with him visiting a public lavatory known as a gay cruise spot where he sees a guy he had a long conversation only 30 minutes before but who pretends not to know him. "If you want to understand gay life in HK, this is where you will find it" the author was told about public lavatories where gay man cruised and had sex. Yes, that's what I mention in my post but some of those bars might be worth checking like the one with free cocktail nights. if anyone is interested about recent reviews of gay saunas in HK, they can read my older posts in here. I go in great details on what day and time to go and what's the main crowd on each of them My favorite remains Hutong.

I'm more curious with they mean by BJB? I wonder if they will charge extra for the private rooms. They are definitely trying to attract with that so called relaxation room (seen by the end of that TikTok video) the crowd of local guys living far from Silom who are looking for a place to crash on weekends after partying at DJ, GOD and Rush.

Btw, is phone snatching really a problem in PP? I first heard it from A Japanese friend this January while I was telling him I had a better time that expected in PP in December and planned to go again there by the end of the month. He mentioned that PP is quite famous phone snatching and that the police usually just let it go. I was quite surprised because it felt very safe both times in PP. I always thought that among the big cities in Southeast Asia this kind of things happen only in HCMC or Manila. Is there any particular area that needs to be avoided in PP?

600baht on a normal weekend night is a pretty steep price. I think it will make it the most expensive in Bangkok (even more expensive than Keybox in Singapore). Mania charges that only during Songran and White Party nights. If it doesn't offer a lower price to locals, like most saunas in Bangkok do, it will almost exclusively be populated with tourists and judging from their name and poster they are going for the Chinese crowd, which is not an easy one to win over. Good facilities by itself won't cut it. It has to at least throw nightly events combined with a good pool of sexy performers that interact with the crowd like Mania, R3, Chakran and Krubb do. Will be curious to see the length of the crowd in Mania this Songran compared with the massive one last year.

or you can go for an Airbnb, especially in PP. There plenty of new towers in there to choose from, and some of them even offer daily housekeeping service, which resolves one of the weakest points of choosing an Airbnb imo (it feels so good to have new sheets and towels when you get back from lunch after having fun with a local twink). Never had any questions asked about bringing visitors and I had guys come and go from my room even at 3-4 AM and sometimes more than one guy at the same time😃

https://www.fastcompany.com/91298370/fda-poppers-crackdow-double-scorpio-stops-operations Maybe some people on this site might better start stocking up on poppers. Personally, as a top, I never use and really don't like the smell but they do make a good gift for some of my regular guys in Thailand and Cambodia. Good to have them also while traveling in Japan and Korea cause as far as I know they don't sell them n there and some guys won't meet a foreigner without using poppers as they claim it's too painful🤪.

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/business/property/hcmc-bans-airbnb-like-short-term-lease-of-residential-apartments-4856470.html Wonder how strict they are going to enforce it, even though the one I usually stay at when in HCMC is both an hotel and apartment, so might escape the ban. If they are really serious in enforcing it , I'm sure it will keep some people away from visiting.

Well, Lunar New Year is not really a great time to visit any city as a tourist in Greater China or even Vietnam as most of the places are closed and people like to hang out with family. FLM is probably the most foreign friendly bar in HK. Usually that's where local guys take their foreign "date" to or go there to find one. There is an entrance fee after a certain hour. The bars around Causeway Bay are much more sticky rice. If one really wants to go though, I would suggest a place called Vibranium. It offers free cocktails on Wednesday from 9-11PM. Even though has the priciest entrance fee in Asia (260HKD which makes it more expensive even to London or Paris) still remains one of the best even after so many years. The facilities are well-kept, pretty clean and the crowd, if you got on the right days and time, is pretty sexy. I have posted a few reviews about that place under this topic. True, it continues to have a sizable and ardent presence of potato queens. I know there are quite a few old-timers in here that have spent part of their life in HK so can give a better historical perspective. I'm younger and my first visit was only in 2014 ( quite the year the with the umbrella "revolution" going on) so maybe it's true that the city has changed for the worse, though I feel it's more the case of other Asian cities getting much better and now competing with HK in a lot of things that made HK unique in the 70s-80s and even 90s. Personally I visit at least twice a year for usually a 4-5 days period each time. Between restaurants (it still has an amazing culinary scene and not just for Cantonese cuisine), hiking, M+ exhibitions, cocktail bar with friends, Hutong and guys from apps, it always ends up being a great time.

Well, considering the safety level on the first two places you mentioned, it's almost understandable they have to do that. In Vietnam on the hand, it's just outdated bureaucratic manners. Luckily Airbnb exists, so I can enjoy the company of Viet guys at any given hour without having to worry about the judgement of a front desk.

That's not bad at all.

Thanks @floridarob Sounds more like what I experienced in the Philippines where it depended on the hotel and sometimes even on the time of the day. I think Vietnam is still the strictest when it comes to hotel guests.

Thanks @Moses Was the wait at the airport for the car to arrive long ? Looks like Grab has moved into this meeting-point model in all the airports it operates. The one at BKK though it's so poorly run and the wait is quite long. Luckily I learnt my lesson and now only order Bolt and take the car on the 4th floor when I land ion there. It has been pretty and fast though in other places like Cambodia and Vietnam.

Planning to return to Bali after almost 10 years and have a few practical questions that hopefully some people here can help me with: Is Grab or any other ridesharing app easily available in Bali? Remember reading 1-2 years ago about taxi drivers protesting the presence of Grab in there. Can you order a Grab straight from the airport? I remember guys had no problems going straight to my room but all of them had to register at reception. Some asked for my first and last name and what surprised me at that time, a few of them knew my name and nationality even though I had given them only my room number, so I guess they were provided to them by reception when they registered. Do you think is better to pick up guys straight from the lobby as I don't want to give them my credentials? Do they have to register if you are with them? Are there any proper gay saunas in Bali? I've heard of Elegantz in here but that sounds more like a massage place to me (plus someone mentioned that it got busted by police a few months ago)

Talking about drugs, I recommend these mid-length Taiwanese film about drug use in Taipei's gay community (a city that from what I have heard the drug use in its gay community has epidemic proportions) The actors are really sexy. Personally, I never done any drugs, including weed even though it's legal where I reside. I have been though to several group actions in different parts of Asia, Europe and N. America where people were consuming hard drugs, mostly the ones mentioned by @simcity in his post. To be honest, the quality of sex has always been pretty mediocre in those kind of situations. The guys just can't concentrate and seem more preoccupied with their drug or going through their phone that what you actually doing with them and then there is always that smell of strong chemicals in the air that hits you as soon as you enter the place where people are consuming it. My strategy is usually just looking for the guy I like the most, try to finish quickly with him and then pretty much just leave. It's very difficult holding a rational conversation with a bunch of people in that state.