MYANMAR
Male to Male relationships: Not Legal
Punishments for male to male relationships: Imprisonment of less than 10 years
Female to Female Relationships: Legal
Marriage and Substitutes for Marriage: No law
The high road of Taunggyi University is crowded with students as it is the very first day of the special class for distant educational programme. Nanda is sitting at a table in a corner of the canteen and looking at the students. As he has just transferred from Yangon just not long ago, he does not have a friend.
All of the students are from the many regions of southern Shan State and they are in groups and having fun. While Nanda is gazing, 4 boys of the same age as Nanda come into the canteen and leave their three motorbikes. They are all Nanda’s type and they are wearing quite trendy clothes and they seem arrogant.
One of them glances at Nanda and telling their orders to the waiter. He seems the sweetest one among them. He has an oval face with a pair of eye lashes which are too long and too curvaceous for a man and a pointed nose. He is just more than handsome. He cannot see the other three as they are sitting by facing other side and Nanda is behind their backs. Nanda can observe him quite well as he is kind of facing him. Nanda can say that they are from rich families just by looking at their motorbikes and the clothes they are wearing.
He wishes it would be great if he has a chance to be friends with them. But he is introvert as he has a habit of not being the one to introduce first. That habit isn’t helping when Nanda is in need of making new friends. He just forgets his desire of being friends. They are still in the canteen and continue talking as he leaves the canteen.
When he gets to the class, it is filled with students. So he sits at an empty seat at the back of the class. Everyone is talking and kidding each other. Nanda is the only one who is lost in his thoughts. A few minutes later, everyone becomes quiet suddenly. Nanda thinks the teacher is coming and when he looks at the entrance, he sees the four boys from the canteen are entering the classroom. He just looks carefully at each one of them and my goodness! All of them are attractive. They neglect the staring faces and walk towards the bench Nanda is sitting.