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Bangkok - A new shopping mall scheduled to open in Bangkok next year will feature a "Gay Avenue" manned by retail outlets owned by gays, news reports said on Thursday.
"Gay Avenue," billed as the country's first "gay shopping zone", will take up 2 400m² 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, managing director 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 gays tended to be chic and unique.
Anusorn claimed the "Gay Avenue" would make the Tawana Centre Park "absolutely different" from the myriad other shopping malls currently adorning Bangkok.
Sapa-dpa