Thai for Gay Tourists: A Language Guide to the Gay Culture of Thailand

By: Saksit Pakdeesiam   List Price: $13.95 Amazon Price: $8.61 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days   Go to Amazon

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Book Description:

THAILAND - Asia’s most gay-friendly country

A sex survey conducted by Time Asia Magazine (published March, 2001) found that Thai people are the most gay-friendly in asia. Thai for Gay Tourists has been designed to enhance your visit to the country so that you can communicate in a more fun and efficient way. If you are gay and are visiting or planning to visit Thailand, this book is a must for you!

THAI FOR GAY TOURISTS... offers gays a new and fun way to communicate in the Thai language; provides information for gays seeking romance in Thailand; has commentary sections about many aspects of Thai gay romantic culture; provides gay slang and phrases as well as anecdotes and stories; requires no previous knowledge of the Thai language; is written in a brisk, interesting style and is well organized with clear, easy to read postscript fonts; and is fun to use!

THAI FOR GAY TOURISTS is the perfect gay language guide for your journey to the Land of Smiles—Thailand!

Product Details:

• Amazon Sales Rank: 1092965
• Date Published: 2001-06-10
• Publisher: Paiboon Pub.
• Binding: Paperback
• 220 pages

Customer Reviews

Still relevant .... still helpful....

I bought this book back in 2003 or 4 or so before my second of third trip to Thailand. It was very helpful in helping me navigate the gay world of Thailand.. most useful in the world of bar boys and young thai boys (yes.. they call themselves boys if they are between 18-30 - something the book reveals). It's now 2010 and I still use the book for help with phrases and translations when chatting with some guys. Buy this.. my copy is well used (and I also lived in Thailand for two years and had a Thai boyfriend who moved to the USA with me.

Essential if you're gay and visiting Thailand

Even if you have had no prior knowledge of Thai, this book clearly presents the sound system and shows the Thai script. It provides ALL vocabulary relevant to gay life, and gives quite a bit of background from gay Thais about life in their country. My only caveat would be that it generally presents homosexuality as accepted and even celebrated there. This is a common presentation of gay life in many countries. However, one should always be aware that we are not the majority and there is bigotry everywhere. But with that in mind, I must say this is truly an impressive little book--it does a lot in a short space, the author is to be commended!

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