Rent Boy Surawong/Silom

"Rent Boy Surawong/Silom" - Chris Coles

A Khmer-Thai from Surin, he's been a Rent Boy in the Bangkok Night for five years....working the Surawong/Silom area in and around Boys Town.....hard gritty action with guys from mostly Europe, Australia and North America......enough money to pay his rent, food, taxis and some leftover to send his Mom and Dad on the hardscrable farm near Surin.....

Gay Tourist in the Bangkok Night

"Gay Tourist in the Bangkok Night" - Chris Coles

The gay scene in Bangkok is large and diverse, both paid and free....hi-level and lo-level....Asians of all kinds, Europeans, Australians, Americans, Africans, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Atheists.....men and women.....there are no limits and no controls........

Guy from Iran in the Bangkok Night

Guy from Iran in the Bangkok Night - Chris Coles

The young guy from Iran is wandering around the Bangkok Night for the very first time, looking to do all the things he can't do back in Iran......Silom, Surawong, Boys Town....hundreds of gay bars, rent boys, men from all over the world.....

Gay Hi-So Guy in Bangkok Night

Gay Hi-So Guy in Bangkok Night - Chris Coles

In Bangkok, there are really no barriers for people who are gay, both men and women. There are gay business tycoons, government officials, military generals and even higher. Gay entertainers, factory workers, bank clerks, whatever. While in some places, to be gay is to be at the forefront of movements for equality and civil rights, in Thailand, a gay person might be rich, powerful and rightwing, care nothing about his "fellow man", and possess an overwhelming feeling of impunity.......

Thai Rent Boy Bangkok Boys Town

Thai Rent Boy Bangkok Boys Town - Chris Coles

.....at the same time kind-hearted and mercenary, he works the gay Farangs who wander through Bangkok Boys Town, night after night, week after week, month after month, year after year, hoping to get lucky before he dies from Aids...........there are so many of them, not hundreds or thousands but hundreds of thousands, passing by for some fun on their way to oblivion..............luckily he is Buddhist and knows that if he treats the Farangs well, gives alms to the Monks and sends money to his family, his next life will be better...............

Gay U.S. Embassy Guy in Bangkok

Gay U.S. Embassy Guy Cruising Around Bangkok - Chris Coles

..............an Ivy League graduate, he's been in Bangkok five years, on the staff at the U.S. Embassy. They're about to ship him out, maybe to Rwanda, maybe Iceland.......he'd rather stay in Bangkok, cruising around Silom's gay bars and clubs, weekends in Phuket, Pattaya and Koh Samui, hanging out with his Thai boyfriends...........Thai food, Thai fun, a penthouse condo, how will he ever give it up........