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The Wild Side of Walking Street
What once was described as a sleepy, little fishing village is not so sleepy or little any more. Pattaya has developed into a booming metropolitan area. It is one of Thailand’s most popular cities and welcomes thousands of tourists each year. I...
Your Holiday Dream Comes True at Pattaya Floating Market
The resort of Pattaya is one of the world’s most well-known tourist destinations and it has much to offer. Spice travel this issue recommends Pattaya Floating Market – the world’s biggest man made floating market which located just a few minutes a...
COMMON THOUGHT FOR THE COMMON MAN
1. A controlled tongue is the beginning of wisdom. 2. The innocence of a child is the miracle in a smile. 3. No man has the right to sacrifice a life for a life. 4. Groans and moans rattle the bones in the grave yard of hate.
Editor’s Notes
The more than 100 decibel Bang! Bang! Bang! noise I heard every day at my apartment was beginning to annoy me. I was wondering when I first moved in, if the other people in the building were fighting or was there a war going on next to my door. Su...
I’m walking down the streets in Bangkok only days after the riots ended and I smile at people and they all smile back. I stop to get some food and an old lady starts talking to me. She tells me that she has lost everything she had, her home was ...
Sydney Mardi Gras 2010
This year Sydney, Australia held the 32nd annual Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras parade and adjoining parties. What started out as a protest march in 1978 has blossomed into the world’s largest annual Gay and Lesbian festival. The festival takes place ov...
Innocence Abroad
It was only my second week in Thailand, 10 years back and I was greener than a banana leaf. A brief but thrilling fling with a Thai guy in Europe had whetted my appetite for his homeland and the thought of another cold and dreary English winter ha...
We recently had the pleasure of attending a special night of fine dining and wine tasting to promote Jacob’s Creek Wines, held at the -5 Degree Supper Club at the Amari Nova Suites in Pattaya. The event was for food and wine lovers. If you haven’t...
Since this issue focuses on Pattaya, we decided to re-visit a 16 year old Pattaya institution, located right in the heart of Boyztown. The Amor Restaurant has an extensive menu with many international foods offered including European, British, Am...
SPICE! Featuring Pattaya
Our feature city this issue is Pattaya, the home of Asia’s largest and oldest gay magazine. First published in 1998 as Thai Guys it later changed to Sticky Rice then Spice! In 2009 it was acquired by local businessmen and renamed Thailand Spice!...
Lavender Lanna’s Jay Gregson Dies at 45
Thailand-based, American entrepreneur Mr. Jan Lewis Gregson, age 45, has died at his home in Chiang Mai. Known as “Jay”, he and his Thai partner Khun Daen converted an old, run down hotel in Chiang Mai into the largest gay-oriented hotel resort i...
Spice! Magazine Issue #51
Features Phuket-An Island for All Seasons for Fun
Gone are the uses of terms like “low” and “high” season to describe travel to Phuket because tourists who have come and love “the Pearl of the Andaman” now visit year-round during the what are now most often referred to as the “winter” and “summer...
Pattaya Pride Dinner at Brunos
The First Charity Dinner under the new name change of Pattaya Pride was held at Bruno’s Restaurant by Chateau Dale on Thappraya Road in Jomtien on January 10th since the Pattaya Gay Festival (PGF) changed its name from its beginning in 2001. Chef ...
Chiang Mai Chatter By David
For those of you new to Chiangmai’s gay scene, Scott and Run at Soho Bar and the guys at House of Male run good bars which are fun and popular with the locals.
Tiffany’s Show: More than just a Show!
Tiffany’s Show stands out as perhaps Pattaya’s single most famous – and important - entertainment venue. That’s saying a lot because this exotic seaside resort is devoted to providing over the top thrills to millions of tourists each year. But in ...
Spice! Magazine Issue #50
PGF Final Four Days Events
The annual Final Four Days of events at the end of 2009 for the Pattaya Gay Festival (PGF) was held from November 29 to December 2 and raised over 545,000 baht in 4 days. The PGF is proud to have collected over 27 million baht in its 9 year histor...
For Asian Gays, Every Day is Fridae!
If you met Stuart Koe on a dance floor you could assume he might be a personal trainer, a bartender, a fashion model—these are the obvious choices based upon first glance. When first visiting Fridae.com, one of the world’s leading LGBTQ (lesbian,...
Move Over Disneyland Welcome to Bangkok!
As a child traipsing about the magic kingdom in Southern California I was enthralled by exotic attractions such as the Jungle Cruise and Pirates of the Caribbean, and by the whole “otherworld” feel of the place, complete with castles, fairytale ch...