These animations have been produced by Mplus+ a grass roots community-based organisation formed to improve the sexual health of men that have sex with men (MSM), including transgenders, Thai male sex workers (MSW) and migrant male sex workers.
“These four animations aimed at increasing understandings of safe sex practices and addressing low perceptions of personal risk to HIV/AIDS. The project, an international collaboration, was undertaken because MSM and MSW were not adequately reached through HIV prevention programmes in Thailand because little was known about their particular situations, contexts and practices.”

Mplus+ Animation …

On 21st of February, the 2nd Chiang Mai Gay Pride Parade had to be called off following a stand-off with a small group of “Rak Chiang Mai 51″ red-shirted pro-Thaksin demonstrators who objected to the event taking place in a public space.
According to The Nation, “The protesters launched verbal attacks through a megaphone saying the event tarnished the city’s reputation.” The previous day, “a leading member of the “Rak Chiang Mai 51″ group said local residents disagreed with the parade as it was against the old city’s culture and could …

From Mekong Erotics: Men Loving/Pleasuring/Using Men in Lao PDR.
By Chris Littleton.
Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok, 2008.
I am 52 and live several hours outside of Vientiane. I was born here and stayed at school here in the countryside until I was 16, when I moved to the capital Vientiane and got a job as a typist in a government office. I had never met a kathoey before. I had heard the word phumae (a term for male/female used for other species, but not humans) before, but never had anyone to talk to about …

Men Loving \ Pleasuring \ Using Men in Lao PDR
UNESCO Bangkok is publishing the first ethnographic study of male-to-male sex, sexuality and erotics in Laos. Researched by Chrys Lyttleton from the Macquarie University in Australia and a team of Lao researchers, Thadum Sayarath, Santiphap Laungbouheuang and Chittaphone Santavasy, this long awaited work provides an in-depth and rare insight into a culture that remains mostly hidden and inaccessible to Westerners.
Below is the foreword to this study by Sheldon Shaeffer, Director of Unesco Bangkok. Extract of the interviews conducted by the researchers …