White Party Turns Into A Bikini Meat Party

Well, I'm not really an expert into what happens during the annual White Party but I don't remember it being this way during my day when it was still held in the streets of Malate.

I think it was more fun then at that time, with foam showers and actual street dancing and not too many bikini boys. The atmosphere then was a group of young gay men just having fun, instead young gay men acting like predators gawking at these boys looking for a quick buck by flashing the only thing that they think they can earn money from.

An event that should've celebrated the diversity and the acceptance of the LGBT community into the mainstream has sadly turned into a bikini meat party, no different from the ones you see in the bikini men's circuit that goes around from the provinces to here in Metro Manila.

Don't get me wrong, like any hot-blooded male, I think strippers are a fun way to celebrate a party but in other countries, the stripping part would just be 30 minutes to one hour at most and the strippers would also be gay, so you'd see strippers kissing gay men or dancing with gay men, Not strippers dancing with the women in the audience - which happened last night!

There were impersonators last night (for about 30 minutes or so) yet the bikini boys just occupied so much of the time - they were there the whole night!

I think it became such a desperate situation for some of the guys that they were actually begging the patrons to give them 'tips' or to actually 'book' them for the night especially when it was nearing closing time.

Instead of celebrating love between two gay people or celebrating people coming out of the closet, ayun, nahulog na lang sa 'booking' 'booking' which is not quite a nice image the straight world would want to see happening in the gay community.

Actually, kung alam ko lang ganito mangyayari, I could've invited all my fun lady friends kasi I'm sure they'd have more fun gawking and dancing with these guys!

 — à BED Manila.