In Vietnam, an unlikely haven for gays - and a lucrative market | Rters

Contents:

• GAY VIETNAM: IS THE UNTRY TURNG TO AN ‘LGBTQ+ PARADISE’?
• SAIGON GAY TRAVEL
• IN VIETNAM, AN UNLIKELY HAVEN FOR GAYS - AND A LUCRATIVE MARKET
• GAY TELEGRAM GROUP LKS 18+
• GAY VIETNAM: THE MOST BETIFUL PLAC VIETNAM FOR DISCERNG GAY TRAVELLERS

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

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.

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.

SAIGON GAY TRAVEL

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.

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

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 TELEGRAM GROUP LKS 18+

(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).

Acrdg to Marnais (1967), who scrib tail male and female homosexualy, lbianism uld be found at all levels of society durg the Vietnam War.