gay chat in chile

Gay chat in Chile

Flying over the Andes this afternoon, en route to Santiago in Chile,

the mountains underneath the plane look very impressive. The original

plan was to meet boyfriend number 2 in Santiago around lunchtime, but

unfortunately he's been delayed so I'm going to have to make the most

of it until his flight arrives tomorrow morning. But what on earth can

a gay guy do in a strange city without any of his boyfriends to keep

him company?

Once I'm in the hotel and everything is unpacked, curiosity gets the

better of me. I can remember that early last year a reader from Chile

had emailed me his gay.com and gaydar profile names, so I find myself

wondering how many gay guys there'll be in the gay.com and gaydar chat

rooms. I try both, however the Chilean chat rooms are completely

empty, which seems very strange because I can't believe that all the

guys in Chile are straight! Indeed not, because with the help of

google I find the chatgay.cl web page, and soon I've located a

Santiago gay chat room at gaychile.com which has over 200 guys in it.

But I don't speak Spanish :-(. I decide to give myself the chat name

of "English tourist" with a bio line starting "No hablo espa�ol,

Santiago hotel, ..." and which goes on to divulge my age.

www.chatgay.cl No sooner have I entered the room when 4 guys all

contact me at once. Wow, I think, this is going to be easy :-). Silly

me! In spite of my lack of Spanish, when I look in detail at their

chat names and bio lines I can immediately tell that 3 of them are

escorts :-(. However, the fourth turns out to be a friendly 25 year

old bisexual guy from the Maip� region so I get chatting to him. But

it's a difficult conversation. Although his English is much better

than my Spanish, his English still isn't very good.

Over the course of the next half hour or so I probably get contacted

by 20+ guys, which is much more interest that I get back in the UK

these days! However, I guess it's clear that I'm a little out of the

ordinary here, so presumably that encourages guys to contact me :-).

None the less, I still get the impression that the younger guys here

are much less ageist than back home. One question that kept coming up

was "do you have MSN?" so presumably guys meet in the chat room but

then move to MSN to continue chatting, exchange pics, and perhaps use

webcams. However, none of the guys speak particularly good English so

communication is difficult for me.

Living in the Europe, and especially the UK, it's very easy to think

that most people in the world speak English. But Latin America is

probably one of the best places to remind oneself how untrue that is,

because Latin America has a thriving culture all of its own. Indeed,

one gets the impression that the majority of the people living here

would barely notice if the whole English speaking world suddenly

ceased to exist. Coming here is certainly a good antidote to Western

culture :-).

Even though I get lots of interest from guys in the chat room, I

decide early on that I'm just there to chat. If I was feeling lonely

on a business trip, I wouldn't think twice about having a guy back to

my hotel room, but boyfriend number 2 will be sharing this room with

me tomorrow so it doesn't seem right to do that. So when the guys ask

me "activo o pasivo", I reply "no sex, chat only" and unfortunately

that usually kills the conversation. It's clear that the gaychile.com

chat rooms are just as sex oriented as the gaydar ones back in the UK.

Although a lot of things in Latin America are very different to the

UK, I guess some things are the same the world over!