Digital Journal (http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/237880/Tolerance_on_the_rise_for_Asia_s_gays_but_laws_lagBy_dpa_Correspondents)
Entire streets in Bangkok are dedicated to gay bars, the city's hospitals have become an international mecca for sex-change surgeries and Thailand's TV and film scene abound with "katoey," or transvestite comic characters, and gay love stories to the point of tedium.