A City of 15 Million Stories
Bangkok is a city of a million faces and a million stories. Each person lives a life independent with his or her own complications, anxieties, depressions and laments. Joy often gives way to a daily existence of life and work interwoven in a fabric of traffic and noise. Every day when I awaken I feel like I want to explore and understand. I want to comprehend what drives each individual. I want to learn about their lives however joyful or miserable. I think in a hidden voyeuristic sort of way it encourages me to look beyond myself and discover a world I might otherwise never see. One day while walking down a busy Bangkok street the city of a million stories decided to give me a glimpse into a very different life. One of the great curiosities of Thailand for the Western mind is what here is known colloquially as the “Third Sex.” In the west we view transgender issues as interwoven with gay rights. It exists as a subset of the society. Most people when confronte