Brits flee battle of the gays

SCORES of teenage male prostitutes and transvestites battled with clubs, knives and petrol bombs in a three-day “gay war”.

Police arrested two young men after one bar was set ablaze and another was completely ransacked in the Thailand resort of Pattaya.

Foreigners including British tourists fled the area, 100 miles east of Bangkok.

The area is famed for gay sex tourism but the trade is in recession.

It is thought the feud erupted when two male hookers, known as “ladyboys” argued over a foreign client. During street fighting a gun was fired into one gay bar.

Pattaya is popular with British sex tourists.

Teenage boys are available there for as little as £12. Prostitution is illegal but cops are paid to turn a blind eye.

The majority of the resort’s foreign gay bars are thought to be owned by Britons.