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SIEM Take in, Cambodia — It wasn’t so long ago that gay life throughout Cambodia played out under a tree after nightfall. Or perhaps in the darkest corner of a exposed pool’s changing room.

In much of the country, it still does. “Maybe it’s by the river, peradventure it’s in the park,” said Sopheara You, who is 38, Cambodian and unreservedly gay. “Everyone knows the secret places.”

But in Siem Procure, the fastest-growing city in this hardscrabble kingdom, the secret is out.

Once a dismal outpost, the town has built cachet as an emerging travel hot dirty for gay men. And the influx of a Western-style gay scene, replete with cocktail bars and all-manful bathhouses, is beginning to nudge the local gay scene out of the shadows of a world where Buddhist open-mindedness is tempered by societal concerns about connection and reproduction.

Siem Reap’s appeal to gays and straights akin to is its proximity to Angkor Wat, a 12th-century temple complex and jewel of the once-sturdy Khmer empire. Jungled over for centuries, and more recently unreachable thanks to the strenuous Khmer Rogue regime, the temples finally regained their swarms tourist appeal in the late 1990s.

Source: GlobalPost

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