xandreu wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 5:06 pm My experience of being gay in the KOW - if anyone is remotely interested - is that there is much less of a hang-up about it here than back in the UK. Then again, there seems to be a gradual acceptance of it globally these days, so I'm not sure if it's specifically that Khmers seem very tolerant of it or it's just a generational thing that's happening everywhere.

In Cambodia, I wouldn't say it's as accepted as heterosexuality, It's still kind of frowned upon and still seen as a bit of an oddity by some, but in a curious kind of way rather than hostile. I get the impression hate crimes towards gay people are very few and far between here. If a gay guy were to hit on a straight guy here, the straight guy would more than likely just politely say he wasn't gay and take it as a compliment that someone tried to hit on him. Growing up in the UK you had to think very hard before you decided to hit on someone as he may well hit on you back - in the form of a punch in the face.

Maybe it's the same back home these days? I'm told it's rather fashionable to be homosexual among the younger generation these days, but coming from the Jurassic era, it's a generation I know very little about so I couldn't say. I certainly hope so.

xandreu wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 5:06 pm My experience of being gay in the KOW - if anyone is remotely interested - is that there is much less of a hang-up about it here than back in the UK. Then again, there seems to be a gradual acceptance of it globally these days, so I'm not sure if it's specifically that Khmers seem very tolerant of it or it's just a generational thing that's happening everywhere.

In Cambodia, I wouldn't say it's as accepted as heterosexuality, It's still kind of frowned upon and still seen as a bit of an oddity by some, but in a curious kind of way rather than hostile. I get the impression hate crimes towards gay people are very few and far between here. If a gay guy were to hit on a straight guy here, the straight guy would more than likely just politely say he wasn't gay and take it as a compliment that someone tried to hit on him. Growing up in the UK you had to think very hard before you decided to hit on someone as he may well hit on you back - in the form of a punch in the face.

Maybe it's the same back home these days? I'm told it's rather fashionable to be homosexual among the younger generation these days, but coming from the Jurassic era, it's a generation I know very little about so I couldn't say. I certainly hope so.