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Walking the thin line
Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 28/11/2013
» When discussing LGBT, the letter that sometimes gets the least airtime is L, which represents "lesbian". While coverage of gay and transgender people seems to have increased, lesbians remain a minority within the minority. As a reporter interested in the issue, I always want to write more about the lesbian community in Thailand and elsewhere.
Man of the moment
Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 11/10/2013
» Narin Palanuraksa's office is rather empty, just a table with a computer. Not many possessions are on the shelf but there are a variety of magazines hailing from all over the world. It's obvious to visitors that he has only moved in recently.
Downplaying the politics
Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 20/09/2013
» Singapore in the early 1960s. Political and racial tensions are escalating as the British prepare to withdraw from one of their oldest colonies. Members of cut-throat Chinese secret societies share the same back streets as well-paid European expats slumming it in the island's fleshpots. This is the backdrop to Serangoon Road, HBO Asia's first original series.
Shifting agenda
Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 04/04/2013
» The phenomenon of Facebook users changing their profile pictures to a red equal sign last week might have left some people puzzled, but it has a simple enough explanation. The picture that went viral was derived from the Human Rights Campaign's symbol for equality, which is being used in support of two cases concerning same-sex marriage now before the US Supreme Court.
Legalising love
Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 26/03/2013
» Imagine if the person you love has passed away at a hospital but you are not allowed to retrieve the body. Imagine if the person you love is being hurt or abused but you are unable to press charges on their behalf. Imagine if you and the person you love have started a business together but when one of you dies, the other has no rights whatsoever to what you have built together.
Life is a Cabaret
Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 31/01/2013
» In the Chinese blockbuster Lost In Thailand that recently took China by storm (and opens in Bangkok on Feb 7), one of the most memorable scenes is when two male characters meet a beautiful woman endowed with the figure of a supermodel at a temple. The woman, they later learn, is actually a transsexual. It's one of the film's big jokes. Long before this movie was released, in the eyes of many foreign visitors the Thai transgender community was one of the unique characters of this country _ unique, bizarre, fascinating, exotic, etc.
Making a splash
Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 27/12/2012
» Johnson Ong can be described as anything from "complete package" and "good catch" to "boyfriend material". Start with his body and brain to his infectious smile and a talent for spinning music, Ong is famously known as "DJ Big Kid" who is much admired in gay circles in the region and elsewhere as the creator of tribal, progressive music.
Some notable firsts
Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 27/12/2012
» This monthly column, now in its second year, brings to you all that is exciting and happening in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Thailand.
Broadening its horizons
Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 05/12/2012
» Many people in the West seem to be looking eastwards these days, with senior curators at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum being no exception.
Back in the spotlight
Muse, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 24/11/2012
» Even in a casual black V-neck T-shirt and a pair of jeans, when fashion photographer and former model Todd Anthony Tyler walks down to the hotel's lounge for an interview, all eyes are on him.