Gay Vietnam: Queer Culture, Lol Life, And What You Should Know! ??

Contents:

• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–VIETNAME DICTNARY
• GAY VIETNAM: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??
• GAY DICTNARY VIETNAME
• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• VIETNAM SAYS HOMOSEXUALY ‘NOT A DISEASE’ W FOR GAY RIGHTS
• GAY VIETNAM: THE MOST BETIFUL PLAC VIETNAM FOR DISCERNG GAY TRAVELLERS
• GAY VIETNAM: IS THE UNTRY TURNG TO AN ‘LGBTQ+ PARADISE’?

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–VIETNAME DICTNARY

This event, huge as might be, is only a part of a larger scene, where proment NGOs such as ISEE ph for acceptance and tolerance of LGBT general, and gays Vietnam particular through myriad workshops, talk shows, and onle events. The latt events have shown that the untry has gone through major chang om a homophobic society to a more tolerant one, allowg for a flourishg, albe still somewhat unrground, gay culture which has a fair share of unique perks and tras.

Artifacts om the era suggted that Vietname at that time actively promoted sexual exploratn and sexual terurse, irrpective whether heterosexually or homosexually, to fd the perfect harmony wh nature, thereby promotg fertily and prospery to the lol muny. However, on the ground that the hband’s seeds might have been transferred om the pregnant woman to the other durg homosexual terurse, the urt led her nocent. It is tertg to note that there was no nvictn of homosexualy the official rerd of the se, and seems homosexualy was not nsired a social crime at that time, as evinced other ntemporaneo rerds.

GAY VIETNAM: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??

Durg the Vietnam War, homosexualy was nmned as a type of sexual viatn the South, so gay upl had to retreat to private unrground bars Saigon to enjoy their time together. After the war, the new socialist ernment did not ban homosexualy, but s lack of support for the upl, as well as overwhelmg support for fay value, created a new issue for gay muni.

Bee there was no official legislatn for them, lol thori found difficult to solve homosexual-related s, so homosexuals Vietnam found themselv a disadvantaged suatn whout legal protectn or regnn. While is still a long way to go before homosexualy is legalized the untry, this is a memorable step om the ernment s effort for gay rights progrs. People are generally more tolerant of homosexuals onle, and there are plenty of Facebook pag which celebrate gay pri the untry, creatg vibrant muni for gays Vietnam.

GAY DICTNARY VIETNAME

Homosexual people, pecially male homosexual people, prefer a mascule image to a feme one, so the more feme one a uple ually has to supprs feme actns and avoid appearg too feme.

Ha Noi is the pal of the untry, and even though is a cy full of ancient tradns and mor, gay activi are pretty lively here spe of beg mostly unrground. Homosexuals the cy often meet up for a chat and for dat discreet snas, some of which clu Spa Adam Hanoi on Lac Tng Street or Tan Sna on Nghi Tam Street. Other than snas, you n also meet up wh a lot of gay dividuals gay-iendly hotels such as La Sita on Nguyen Quang Bich Street and Aprit Hotel on Hang Trong Street.

Conceived Hanoi 2012, the first pri para the untry was groundbreakg, as was the first time LGBTs general and homosexualy particular showed up wh pri public. The lols are very sensive wh touchg, even if you are openly gay, so make sure to ask before you touch for a few openly gay people, most gays Vietnam would prefer some gree of secrecy, so do not expose their sexualy whout askg them firstVietname love a good round of beer, so if you want to relax wh your Vietname gay iends, head for a lol gay barDon’t show too much affectn for your gay boyiend/girliend public if they are not okay wh . Vietnam is the risg star South East Asia gay scene -jog the lik of Bangkok and Pattaya -, so there are a whole lot of thgs you n enjoy while stayg here.

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

Acrdg to a recent report published by the Asia branch of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, many people the Vietname LGBTQ+ muny feel like the ernment is takg advantage of LGBTQ+ rights Vietnam as pensatn for other vlatns of human rights. Even though the law Vietnam has been more iendly towards LGBTQ+ people (or at least prciple) and the ernment has been pledgg to improve the ndns of the muny, LGBTQ+ people Vietnam still face tremendo discrimatn om society and prsure om their fai to nform to a “normal” heteronormative example, there is an issue of homosexual dividuals marryg people of different genr due to the prsure om eher society or their fay. [8] Homosexual dividuals also engage marriage arrangements wh other homosexual dividuals of a different genr to please their fai on both to the ernment’s efficiency draftg regulatns for transgenr people, unrgog hormone therapy or other related medil procr remas extremely difficult and dangero, not to mentn very stly.

[11]The 2021 electns for the Natnal Assembly and the lol People’s Commtee Hanoi saw the appearance of Luong The Huy, the first openly gay ndidate nng for both offic. Acrdg to the Encyclopedia of Sexualy: In Vietnam, there has historilly been relatively ltle male homosexualy, although a few of the emperors of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuri did mata male ncub.

In prent-day Vietnam, homosexualy is still regard as beg a foreign problem, and, as other socialist untri, there is a lack of official rearch on homosexual behavr. Ai Nam Ai Nu is the clost scriptive approximatn to what is meant ontologilly and behavrally by the Wtern term homosexualy, though, if one tak Ai as a verb, the term closer to "bisexual" behavr.

VIETNAM SAYS HOMOSEXUALY ‘NOT A DISEASE’ W FOR GAY RIGHTS

As far as the prevailg sexual activi, mutual masturbatn and fellat, are ncerned, there do not appear to be any strongly veloped sense of playg a mascule or feme sexual role of the kd as is often found other societi where anal terurse is more prevalent and the ultimate objective of homosexual enunters. Proschan (1998) has reported that although "gay" might be the only English word some of his rmants had known, they had embraced as their own and imbued wh meangs that diverge om those of Englishspeakers elsewhere: Vietname men today are fashng diverse ways of livg as men-who-love-men, drawg varly on endogeno tradns and inti as well as exogeno ncepts and practic, bg and rebg them, and at the same time nttg both cultural nventns that would nmn homosexualy as patible wh filial piety and metropolan notns that would sist there is only one way to be thentilly gay. (1898) terpreted homosexualy as a qutnable behavr rultg om the Che cultural fluence, and a sign of nce that disappeared after the French fluence gaed fluence.

There were also homosexual steam baths, nightclubs, and ffee shops, and young boys, impoverished and orphaned by the war, sold themselv openly on street rners to passersby.

GAY VIETNAM: THE MOST BETIFUL PLAC VIETNAM FOR DISCERNG GAY TRAVELLERS

For Amerin soldiers, was risky to be volved homosexual activy, bee the army did not tolerate , and spected homosexuals were immediately given a dishonorable discharge (Taylor 1997). The ancient legal s of the Le Dynasty (1428-1787) and the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945) tailed the penalti for crim such as heterosexual rape, asslt, adultery, and ct, but left homosexualy unmentned. On the few ocsns when homosexual activi seem to have been punished, they had been treated as rape or as adultery (disregardg the fact that both partners were the same sex, and ncentratg stead on the fact that one or both were married to other partners).

Although homosexualy or sodomy was not specifilly referred to anywhere morn Vietname crimal law, "sex buyg and sellg any form" was prohibed, as were more general and vague crim such as "unrmg public moraly.

But Vietname thori uld fd legal basis for punishg homosexual behavr if they chose, bee crim such as "unrmg public moraly" uld be ed (as siar crim of "public cency" or "solicg" are the U. There were many other homosexual women livg together the provce but Hong Kim Huong, 30, and Cao Tien Duyen, 23, were the only on who were married publicly, he said. Other homosexual marriag have taken place Vietnam discrete ceremoni, but homosexualy remas taboo the untry, although is not officially illegal.

GAY VIETNAM: IS THE UNTRY TURNG TO AN ‘LGBTQ+ PARADISE’?

On a raid on a gay sna party, Agence France Prse reported: "Thirty homosexual men have been arrted durg a raid by police on a fns center Vietnam's southern metropolis of Ho Chi Mh cy, officials said. The center, which opened earlier this year, has been popular among the cy's gay muny wh a reasonable entrance fee of only about three dollars, the state-owned Thanh Nien (Young People) daily said. AFP reported: "Outward discrimatn of the kd sometim found Wtern untri is rare Vietnam, possibly bee homosexualy do not yet exist as a firm ncept Vietnam and also bee a large gree of same-sex tactily is accepted as normal Southeast Asian cultur.