A Change of Guard

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Tuesday, 7 December 2010

In Cambodia, gays take refuge in their own “town”

TERRY MCCOY – GLOBAL POST – CROSS-POSTED FROM LGBT ASYLUM NEWS
December 6th, 2010
Photo credit: Global Post Living in Beoung Kak 2, Cambodia’s first gay town.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Along the train tracks in one of Phnom Penh’s ubiquitous slums, the noise never stops and everything is changing. Longtime residents are fearful that they’ll soon have to move. This place isn’t safe anymore, they say. It isn’t moral anymore.
Along these same tracks, roughly 100 new residents, in search of asylum and community, have trickled in over the last several years and now lead lives of shocking desperation. Most of them only sleep during the day. Some perform acts of prostitution. Others dress as women. Almost all of them are homosexual men. And this place, Beoung Kak 2, has become a home: Cambodia’s first gay town.
But this isn’t Boystown in Chicago, nor the Castro in San Francisco. This isn’t a place where homosexuals can celebrate sexuality, individuality, love. Make no mistake: It’s a place for survival.
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