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Two young actors are taking the town by storm. Known as 'Win' and 'Weir', they starred together in a television soap opera called พลิกดินสู่ดาว (Plik Din Soo Daow).
Both are new faces to the industry. In real life, the young men are engineering students. Win Tawin Yaowapolkul (วิน-ธาวิน เยาวพลกุล) studies in Bangkok, and Weir (เวียร์-ศุกลวัฒน์ คณารศ) Sukonwat Kanarot, in Khon Kaen.
Weir was ‘discovered’ by a talent manager, who spotted his photograph in a friend’s mobile phone, and promptly took a flight to Khon Kaen to sign him up. One Pantip board poster says the young people in her neighbourhood are crazy about him:
เด็กแถวบ้าน รวมถึงที่มหาลัยกำลังกรี๊ดก
๊าดเวียร์อย่างหนักเลยอ่ะ
ตอนแรก เด็กพวกนี้กรี๊ดฟิล์มมาก ตอนนี้เค้าบอกเบื่อแล้ว ต่อมาก็มากรี๊ดกอล์ฟ ไมค์
เค้าก็บอกว่าเบื่อแล้ว ทำไมเบื่ออะไรกันง่ายดายขนา
นั้น
แต่ตอนนี้เวียร์กำลังมาแรงจ
ิง ๆ ดูไปดูมาก็น่ารักดีอ่ะ
'At first, they were crazy about 'Film' Rattapoom. Now, he’s boring. Then it was 'Golf' Pongsak Ratanapong (from Academy Fantasia). But these days they’ve gone off him, too. After that it was Golf and Mike. Same story: they’re old news, now. At the moment it’s Weir who is taking the place by storm.'
In the television series Win and Weir share an innocent relationship, but one Pantip poster wants us to read more into it. She has taken a series of still pictures from the show, and given them each her own caption. 'This is my boyfriend!' says one, in a scene where the pair meet a group of students.
Win and Weir are not the first young male performers to be linked romantically. Dan and Beam, formerly of the boy band D2B, still sing and act together, and are obviously good friends. Another well-known pairing is Aof and Boy, who have seemed inseparable since they appeared on Academy Fantasia together last year.
Coincidentally, the Manager newspaper ran a report today where Aof once again denied rumours he was gay, after he was spotted shopping with a male friend at a suburban mall.
‘Everyone who knows me knows I am 100% man,’ he says. If girls do not throw themselves at him after school concerts, it’s because he leaves the stage for the changing room too quickly. ‘Such a shame,’ he says with a laugh (to my ear, unconvincingly).
The more these guys deny they are gay, the more fans are likely to insist there’s really more to it.
Someone on Pantip has taken pictures of Win and Weir, where they appear together on the show, in various male bonding scenes, and compared their likeness to Dan and Beam. Yet another poster has invented a mischievous exchange between Dan and Beam, where Dan tells Beam he wants to marry his younger sister – so the two of them (Dan and Beam) can live together under the same roof forever.
Posts suggesting romantic links between these male stars are left in fun. Their female fans, it seems, do not mind seeing them with other men – perhaps because the alternative, seeing them with women, is more galling.
Win and Weir, Dan and Beam, Aof and Boy: they may not be gay, but are lucky to enjoy friendships which, as belied by these pictures, look as deep as any I know. Cynics might say they are just gay; I would say their relationship goes beyond that level to something more profound still, and no less fun.
Take a look at these pictures of Win and Weir cooking together. The pair look close, even if they are putting on a show for the benefit of the media. But Weir has also been linked to an actress/singer called Pancake; they appeared in the same series, and are friends. Why shouldn’t we regard him as straight as well?
The touching pictures of these male couples are often taken from television shows, where they are acting in roles. But I have also seen close male-bonding pictures taken at social functions, television interviews, concerts and the like, where they are more natural and relaxed.
Singers and actors like to project a clean image. Their handlers insist on it; anything else would upset parents and cultural watchdogs. At the same time, youngsters seem to understand that their male idols can be human just like everyone else.
If two young Thai performers connect, are seen everywhere together, and become so familiar in the public mind that they are even cast in the same shows, then most young fans seem willing to accept it.
Never mind if they swear that there's nothing more involved than friendship. In some cases, they might be right - in which case, they are fortunate to enjoy such close relationships with guys who are not afraid to show how they really feel.
Here, it is okay for two guys to touch, hug, hold hands, even kiss - and they can do it on TV. No one seems to mind, or if they do, they keep their views to themselves. Long may it continue, even if teenage fans are a fickle lot, and will move on to the next new face before long.
Link:
http://bkkmindscape.blogspot.com/2006/08/r...each-other.html
This post has been edited by Sunyah: 11 December 2007 - 08:59 AM
and not be gay 
I don't know any straight guy that are willing to hold each other hands and kiss in public 
(that's alittle fishy if they do and say their straight) 
