‘Social Order’ Takes the Life Out of Night Life
Here’s a pretty interesting article showing Bankoks Club scene in the eyes of the New York Times”
Josef Polleross for The New York Times
By JENNIFER GAMPELL
Published: March 1, 2006 NY Times
ID check at the door of Q bar.
A long wooden table obstructs the entrance to Silom Soi 2, a narrow pedestrian alley lined with gay bars a few blocks from Bangkok’s once-infamous red light district, Patpong. I’m going to D.J. Station, a local club where gays and straights alike gyrate to earsplitting rhythms on the cramped dance floor. Four burly men in jeans and T-shirts slouching at one end of the table point to a prominent sign written in Thai and ungrammatical English. No one under 20 can enter the soi (street) and everyone must present valid ID, which for non-Thais constitutes an original passport (no photocopies) or a driver’s license.
