Gay Vietnam: Is the untry beg the new LGBT Paradise?

Contents:

• GAY DICTNARY VIETNAME
• A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER
• SAIGON GAY TRAVEL
• GAY VIETNAM: THE MOST BETIFUL PLAC VIETNAM FOR DISCERNG GAY TRAVELLERS
• 07 | MYTHS OF WAR: GAY SERVICEMEN VIETNAM
• VIETNAM SAYS HOMOSEXUALY ‘NOT A DISEASE’ W FOR GAY RIGHTS
• GAY VIETNAM: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??
• GAY VIETNAM: IS THE UNTRY TURNG TO AN ‘LGBTQ+ PARADISE’?
• IN VIETNAM, AN UNLIKELY HAVEN FOR GAYS - AND A LUCRATIVE MARKET
• GAY HANOI
• GAY VIETNAM · COUNTRY GUI

GAY DICTNARY VIETNAME

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?

A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER

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.

SAIGON GAY TRAVEL

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.

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

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).

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.

07 | MYTHS OF WAR: GAY SERVICEMEN VIETNAM

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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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. 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.

IN VIETNAM, AN UNLIKELY HAVEN FOR GAYS - AND A LUCRATIVE MARKET

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.

GAY HANOI

" 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. "Two years ago, Chung A, the head of the untry's anti-AIDS, prostutn and dgs mtee, clared that the number of gays Vietnam uld be unted on the fgers of his two hands.

GAY VIETNAM · COUNTRY GUI

"The number of homosexuals has creased a lot and the issue of AIDS preventn this group needs to be addrsed, " he was quoted by the Lao Dong newspaper as sayg.

The dramatic crease the number of openly gay men Ho Chi Mh Cy and Hanoi has sparked nsirable media tert, wh most newspapers labelg homosexuals as beg eher ill or victims of a current trend.

But Le Hoang, the popular director of the ntroversial sex and dgs movie Bar Girls, stck a softer tone when he answered qutns about homosexualy on a Vietname Web se May. A man uld have sex wh another man and not nsir himself gay, " said Donn Colby, a Fulbright Rearch Scholar who nducted a survey entled Men Who Have Sex Wh Men (MSM) Ho Chi Mh Cy 2001.