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AIRPORT BOYS (the last photo wasn’t taken at the airport, but at the resort. Just posted the pic here since he’s cute.)

(This is the first of a series of gay hotspots in and around the Metro. We’ll feature unconventional places where you can find hot - and hopefully gay - men. We’ll veer away from the usual gay clubs, bars, and saunas.)

I get excited everytime I travel not only because of the destination but also because of the airport. I can safely say that I am well traveled domestically. In the past 5 years, I have been to at least three cities in most of the Philippine geographic regions, thanks to my previous job in the entertainment industry and my jetsetter friends.

My friends and I believe in the adage, “Huwag maging dayuhan sa sariling bayan. (Don’t be a stranger in your own land)” And we have vowed to at go to travel to different parts of our country for our weekend getaways. And during summer, we always head to different summer destinations. We kicked off this year’s Lakbay Pilipinas Tour with a bang as we basked under the summer sun of Oriental Negros. Destination: Antulang, Siaton (45 minutes away from Dumaguete City). (Photos here)

Although the Manila Domestic Airport is chaotic, ugly, and disorganized, I almost always never seem to get tired of it. It is, to me, such a lovely place to look at ogle at hot men of different shapes and sizes. A lot of these men are bound for Caticlan or Kalibo, on the way to get a kiss from Boracay’s summer sun. The others, well, to other destinations. The Philippine Airlines Centennial Terminal is also one happening place for hot men spotting, but the scope is quite limited.

You’d see lots of celebrities, models, and model-wannabes (but who’s complaining?), and hot foreign men. From the queue to get in to the terminal, to the check-in counter, to the pre-departure area, to the baggage claim and the arrival - they’re all over the place! On more than one occasion, the stalker in me has come out. This happens mostly during sembreaks and end-of-school breaks when provincial lasses who study in Metro Manila go back home to their families. I would look at the boxes and the baggage they claimed and make mental notes of the names and addresses on them. But since I’m such a prude, that’s all that I could do. I have their name and their address, but all I could do was dream about talking to them. Oh well. If you have great cruising and flirting skills, please do teach me! Lol.

On the way back from Dumaguete City, I was stark raving mad because of the rude security guard at the check-in counter of Cebu Pacific. He kicked my luggage onto another spot and talked to me in a sarcastic tone of voice. As I was about to lash at the poor consolocaion dela gwardya, my friends motioned me to look behind me so I could shake it off. And lo and behold! A hot guy was right beside me! And since I’m so bad at cruising and flirting with other guys, I was left with no other choice but to gawk, err, steal conservative glances at him.

The baggage claim area, at the arrival, is probably the best place to look at hot men. You’re all standing by the conveyor belt (or in some airports, by the waiting area where they manually drop off your bags), waiting for your bags and checking out hot men if yours is already there. Here, you can steal glances or even gawk at (or if you’re brave enough, make small talk with) the hot men. At the baggage claim area, what I normally do is go to a claim area for another airline or another flight and pretend as if I’m waiting for my luggage there. Eye candies are fun.

I think my domestic travel experience has proven my theory that airports have the most number of hot men at any given time! So come now and let’s fly. Who knows, you might meet the man of your dreams, or wet dreams, at the airport?

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