Cambodia Hearts the GLBT

March 23, 2009
The Phnom Penh Post
Lifestyle Section

Written By: Brendan Brady

They're acknowledging the openess now...I love I love!!!
Can't wait for the Phnom Penh Gay & Lesbian Pride!!!
Thank you Phnom Penh Post for this!!! GLBT loves you too. LOL

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What’s up y'all!

We need to catch up my colorful friends!

There’s a lot in store for everyone… Like the new branch of Romantic gay sauna in Siem Reap, the new sort of gay hotel house called Green Garden House that will be opening this week, the Phnom Penh Pride that’s on its way planning, exhibitions in Meta-House, the Vagina Monolugue…OMG…We really need to catch up.

But for now, I want to thank you all guys for helping me to decide if I need to pursue this blog.

Now, I have better plans and new cool stuff to talk about about the colorful life in Cambodia, for the meantime give me time to renovate the new home as you can see I changed the logo, and soon we’ll talk not only about gays, but also considering our lesbian, bi, discreet and closeted friends.

So if you have some thoughts you want me to feature or personality you want to be interviewed, please let me know – email me at queercambodia@gmail.com and I’ll see what I can do.

I’m also starting me QC’s faves…that you’ll be seeing me logo to my favorite establishments in Cambodia.

That’s all.

PS: I’m at Blue Chilli tonight 9pm - meeting with Oak about PPPride.. Cheers!

Cambodia Comes Out

Hey! Our beloved Cambodia is featured on Fridae.com the leading Asian Gay meeting website.

The article:

Cambodia comes out
By Robin Newbold

Cambodia and in particular Siem Reap - gateway to the famous Angkor Wat temple complex - is fast seeing an increase in gay tourism. Former Bangkok-based writer Robin Newbold checks out the scene and reveals what’s in store for gay travelers. Cambodia has got a nasty past. The twisted communist regime, headed by Pol Pot, and administered by his Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975 and wanted to create a nation of peasants where wealth, status and education were irrelevant. People were forced to work in fields or on government-approved building projects, while schools and universities were closed and anyone deemed a threat, from people who spoke a foreign language to those wearing glasses were interrogated and then executed. The authorities were said to have bludgeoned the country “back to the stone age” and a protracted guerrilla war ended only in 1998. But now the nation is reaping the peace dividend and with its chequered history of violence, its crumbling French colonial buildings, saffron-robed monks, ancient temples and newly emergent gay scene, it is at once characterful, edgy and colourful

Hopefully this influx of foreigners, along with the country’s fledgling gay scene, does not mean the country will become a magnet for sex tourists as has happened in certain areas of Thailand because Cambodia, like its neighbour, is tolerant of difference in that it has no laws against homosexuality.

Read more, Click here:
http://fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2303&viewarticle=1