A gay soldier’s story of Vietnam and after - Dallas Voice

Contents:

• A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER
• SAIGON GAY TRAVEL
• TRAI BAO, TRAI GọI, TRAI NGàNH, CALL BOY | DịCH Vụ MASSAGE GAY TậN NơI
• TRAI NHảY – PHIM GAY VIệT NAM
• GAY VIỆT
• GAY VIETNAM: THE MOST BETIFUL PLAC VIETNAM FOR DISCERNG GAY TRAVELLERS
• VIETNAM SAYS HOMOSEXUALY ‘NOT A DISEASE’ W FOR GAY RIGHTS
• HO CHI MH GAY SNAS & MASSAGE
• HANOI GAY SNAS
• GAY VIETNAM: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??
• DàN THí SH MR GAY VIETNAM 2020

A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER

The day Larry Sanrs registered for the draft, one qutn buried the middle of a long qutnnaire smacked him the face: “Do you intify as a homosexual or ever had sexual feelgs for persons of the same sex? When I registered for the draft jt a few years later, I was told not to say I was gay, bee they would make you prove .

SAIGON GAY TRAVEL

Here are a few fantastic hotels for gay travelers Saigon that are highly rated and perfectly loted for experiencg the bt parts of the cy. At the prent time, gay marriage is legal Vietnam, however gay upl still nnot obta the typil rights afford to married upl.

The VietPri para vio above, produced by Saigoneer, shows the betiful muny that has e together to celebrate Saigon’s gay pri! There are no laws or regulatns on homosexualy or homosexuals Vietnam, and no mentn of gays as a risk group for HIV and AIDS. 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. The Vietname e more than one exprsn for the Wtern neologism homosexualy, although all have the same unrlyg meang of "half man and half woman.

TRAI BAO, TRAI GọI, TRAI NGàNH, CALL BOY | DịCH Vụ MASSAGE GAY TậN NơI

The ncept of homosexualy only me to greater e wh the troductn of Wtern psychology and sexology so-lled hygiene manuals the 1950s and 1960s.

TRAI NHảY – PHIM GAY VIệT NAM

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. 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.

GAY VIỆT

(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. 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).

Acrdg to Marnais (1967), who scrib tail male and female homosexualy, lbianism uld be found at all levels of society durg the Vietnam War. Proschan (Aronson 1999; "Frank" 2000) wr that neher homosexual inty nor behavrs had ever been explicly illegal Vietnam. 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.

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

" In the latt Law on Marriage and Fay (1986), no article mentned the State attu or any guil for public opn about homosexual behavr. 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.

AFP reported: "While police fd hard to take actn agast gay activy public plac, they move cisively on male brothels.

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

The mastream gay scene the southern metropolis is also facg hard tim, wh s only gay club shuttered, ostensibly for refurbishment. 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.

HO CHI MH GAY SNAS & MASSAGE

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. As an ditn of how open thgs have gotten Vietnam, Tong Tan, a rpected and openly homosexual artist Saigon, openly creat art which celebrat his "obssn" wh the penis. In the late 1990s a grassroots gay group emerged wh the aim of rcg the spread of HIV/AIDS among gay and bisexual men Ho Chi Mh Cy.

HANOI GAY SNAS

As publitns like The Men of Viet Nam: A Travel Gui to Gay Viet Nam and Web s like suggt, foreign homosexual sex tourism is on the rise. In 2007, Chris Pycroft wrote "A survey nducted Vietnam schools shows that one quarter of high school stunt prume that 10 percent of their iends are gay. Three hundred stunts om different junr and senr high schools across the cy took part the poll, wh close to half ditg that some school iends were gay, some s as many as 10 percent.

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

The study also found that 80 percent of high school stunts Ho Chi Mh Cy do not thk homosexualy is bad, and that only 2 percent of stunts owned on peers upon fdg out their sexualy. "In tth, homosexualy has never e up any of the meetgs anized by the school’s pedagogil board or pacy fosterg class I have attend, " Ms Mh said beg ially Teacher Vo Thi Ngoc Mh said "This was a lson on ‘Love’ the cizens tn urse.

Based an award-wg novel lled “A World Whout Women”, featured a tective who search for a killer whose brother has a gay affair. Margie Mason of Associated Prs wrote: "A homosexual killer is leadg police on a harrowg journey to an unrworld they never knew existed.

It's up to officer Lan to solve the se before another victim is found, but he mt first nont his prejudic agast a gay brother he ref to accept. The plot is groundbreakg for this munist untry where sex is mentned only whispers, homosexualy is still largely nsired a disease, and the state tightly ntrols publishg and broadstg. The 10-episo story le is adapted om award-wng novel Mot The Gi Khong Co Dan Ba, or A World Whout Women, which took Vietnam by surprise 2000 when beme the first book to addrs gay issu a ser manner.

DàN THí SH MR GAY VIETNAM 2020

" Physil closens between men — walkg hand hand or stg wh arms draped around each other — is socially acceptable Vietname culture, but homosexualy is ranked by some as a "social evil" alongsi prostutn and dg abe. AFP reported: "Although relatively ee om discrimatn, some Vietname gays feel their existence is ignored rather than accepted Wh his pk lipstick, eye makp and black nail varnish, Ti prefers not to shake hands and stead rais his arm to the classic, cliched limp-wristed posn.

"I knew I was gay om the age of five or six, " said the 27-year-old, stg a ffee shop Vietnam's southern bs pal of Ho Chi Mh Cy.