Vietnam has not legalized same-sex marriage, but new law effectively crimaliz , puttg untry at vanguard of gay rights Southeast Asia
Contents:
- 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- GAY WEDDGS PLANNED AS VIETNAM MARRIAGE LAW IS REPEALED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
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. * mariage gay vietnam *
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GAY WEDDGS PLANNED AS VIETNAM MARRIAGE LAW IS REPEALED
LGBT Rights Vietnam: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * mariage gay vietnam *
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”.
VIETNAM GAY MARRIAGE
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. 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.
CONFN, OPTIMISM REMA AS VIETNAM DECRIMALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
In the vio, volunteers asked superrs for time off for their “homosexual disease”. 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.
I blamed him and wanted him to stay away om his gay iends. Both hospals offer treatments based on the ia that there are “real gays” and “fake gays, ” the latter of which is nsired “curable”. “In realy, there are many people who are real gays, but there are also many who are fake gays, ” Mai Huong’s webse stat.