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New Bangkok mall to offer gay shopping
Bangkok, Thailand
01 December 2005 09:59

A new shopping mall scheduled to open in Bangkok next year will feature a "Gay Avenue" manned by retail outlets owned by gay people, news reports said on Thursday.

"Gay Avenue", billed as the country's first "gay shopping zone", will take up 2 400 square metres of retail space in the Tawana Centre Park, a new shopping mall scheduled to open in March next year, said the Bangkok Post newspaper.

"I don't think there will be any backlash on the project from the conservative sector of society because the products and services on offer will be furniture, fashion items, home decoration items, restaurants and coffee shops," said Anusorn Jaruwattananukool, MD of the Bangkok Centre Development Company -- the project's operator.

"None of the shops will deal with sex," promised Anusorn, who claimed that the products created by gay people tend to be chic and unique.

Anusorn claimed "Gay Avenue" would make the Tawana Centre Park "absolutely different" from the myriad other shopping malls in Bangkok. -- Sapa-DPA


Planned Bangkok mall to offer gay shopping - Blade

BANGKOK, Thailand — “Gay Avenue,” with retail outlets owned by gay men and lesbians, will debut in a new shopping mall set to open in Bangkok next year, the South African Press Association and the Dutch Press Agency reported. Gay Avenue is marketed as the country’s first “gay shopping zone” and will cover more than 7,800 square feet of retail space at Tawana Centre Park, a new shopping mall set to open in March, the Bangkok Post reported. “I don’t think there will be any backlash on the project from the conservative sector of society because the products and services on offer will be furniture, fashion items, home decoration items, restaurants and coffee shops,” Anusorn Jaruwattananukool, of the Bangkok Centre Development Company, the project’s operator, told reporters. “None of the shops will deal with sex.” According to Anusorn, Gay Avenue will make the shopping mall “absolutely different” from the many other Bangkok shopping complexes.