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Jason and Tola operating an LGBTQ+ Gay Café in Siem Riep, Cambodia

Meet Jason & Tola – Café Owners in Cambodia | A Gay Couple Story

CAMBODIA: Running a gay café in Siem Reap is not all that the gay couple are doing to do what they really wanted to do their whole life. “We knew we wanted to help the LGBTIQ+ community” – Enjoy our story of Jason and Tola on Couple of Men and learn more about how the gay couple from Siem Reap is facing the challenge of the Corona crisis together.

Schwul in Kambodscha Gay in Cambodia: LGBTQ+ Situation in the Asian Kingdom © Café Krousar/A Place To Be Yourself (Jason Argenta)

Rejection & Violence: LGBTQ+ in Cambodia

CAMBODIA: Additionally to the two genders, male and female, Cambodia’s national language Khmer also knows the third gender kteuy, describing a person who has the physical characteristics of one gender but the behavior of the other.