Night life...

Six or seven years ago, during one of our stays in Phnom Penh, we visited a club called POC (Pride of Cambodia), which was entertaining its patrons with a concert called a "drag show."

A drag show is a form of performance art in which performers (primarily drag queens, often men who portray exaggeratedly feminine characters) use elaborate costumes, heavy makeup, dance, singing (lip-syncing), comedy, and parody to create a show combining elements of theater, cabaret, performance, and fashion, often with a satirical or comedic twist.

Lip-syncing (or lip-synching) is a technique that involves synchronizing lip movements with pre-recorded audio.

Imagine, in a metropolis of over a million people, where we know only a few people, we accidentally bump into one of them on the street. It was the manager of the POC club, Mr Tola.

Tonight as a DJ:

It turned out that the years hadn't blurred his memory of our faces, and he cheerfully greeted us. So he suggested an evening at his club.

We were special guests, and the entire staff and artists devoted a lot of time to us.

We had a great time...

LGBT + in Cambodia:

“In Cambodia, same-sex relations have always been legal, and society has shown increasing acceptance of LGBT+ people, as seen in annual pride parades and the government’s commitment to protecting rights, although stigma still exists and same-sex marriage is not legal, and local terms such as Kathoey (transgender/ladyboys) are also important.”