Vietnam takg the lead gay rights Southeast Asia by abolishg a ban on same-sex marriage has medil doctor Thuan Nguyen planng a weddg ceremony wh his boyiend of two years.
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- VIETNAM SAYS HOMOSEXUALY ‘NOT A DISEASE’ W FOR GAY RIGHTS
- GAY WEDDGS PLANNED AS VIETNAM MARRIAGE LAW IS REPEALED
- VIETNAM GAY MARRIAGE
- CONFN, OPTIMISM REMA AS VIETNAM DECRIMALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
VIETNAM SAYS HOMOSEXUALY ‘NOT A DISEASE’ W FOR GAY RIGHTS
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Vietnam was hailed as a lear on gay rights Southeast Asia after the untry’s munist ernment abolished a ban on same-sex marriage last year.
GAY WEDDGS PLANNED AS VIETNAM MARRIAGE LAW IS REPEALED
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But discrimatn and bullyg still afflict lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) youth the untry acrdg to lol media. The move set Vietnam apart om most other untri the regn, where gay-rights movements have eher stalled or are facg growg opposn.
“When they beat me, they sulted my parents nam for havg a gay son, ” he said. Ho Chi Mh Cy, Vietnam – Phong Vuong was preparg for the lnch of a mpaign advotg for the legalisatn of gay marriage when he heard that the ernment had cid that homosexualy was “not a disease”.
The official announcement, sent to provcial and municipal health partments natnwi before beg released on the ernment’s onle rmatn portal on Augt 8, stat that Vietnam’s health mister had received rmatn that some healthre tablishments were claimg to offer “cur” for homosexualy.
VIETNAM GAY MARRIAGE
Based on this, and cg the World Health Organisatn’s (WHO) removal of homosexualy and beg transgenr om the Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas, go on to outle five primary guil for the health system. Edutn should be strengthened so all medil provirs have rrect knowledge about “lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, ” says, and that queer people mt be treated equally medil environments.
In the vio, volunteers asked superrs for time off for their “homosexual disease”.
CONFN, OPTIMISM REMA AS VIETNAM DECRIMALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
The untry’s first mpaign for the acceptance of gay marriage go back nearly a . Mong Nguyen was a parent who stggled to accept her gay son.
“In 2011, I found out that my son is gay, ” she told Al Jazeera.