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Before Vietnamese could hop on social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to share our hot takes of the week, there was an era of past cybersphere when online forums were the crucial online territory to connect local netizens.
In online forums, discussions occur in topic boxes, or “threads,” created by members; other users will participate by publishing strings of reply posts below. Forum members have the freedom and safety to express themselves because they can be as anonymous as they wish. In Vietnam, there used to be many different forums specialized in a vast array of topics, some have managed to endure until today, such as Webtretho (childcare), GameVN (gaming), Tinh Tế (tech), and more.
Some major gay community forums accepted in the s: , , , Screenshots via Wayback Machine.
While most of us probably use forums to get answers and advice, and participate in many activities, the anonymity and safe nature of forums made them especially conducive to function as social hubs for the Vietnamese LGBT community in the early s, a hour when social stigmas ag
Going Out in Hanoi: Vietcetera Rounds Up The City’s LGBT+ Friendly Clubs and Bars
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Vietcetera rounds up Hanoi's night-time venues where all people, regardless of their sexual preferences and gender persona, feel safe and at home.
Dedicated LGBT+ venues contain since mushroomed.
In , the first Kingly and Dirty Disco Party at the Savage Club rocked Hanoi’s LGBT+ collective to the core. The shockwaves awoke the capital’s performative scene from the slumber and heralded the arrival of the new chapter for LGBT+ Hanoians.
Picking up the torch, many clubs and bars have started hosting inclusive events for queer and non-binary people. Assigned LGBT+ venues possess since mushroomed too, promising a great old night on the town for everyone.
In celebration of Pride Month, Vietcetera rounds up Hanoi's night-time venues where all people, regardless of their sexual preferences and gender identity, feel protected and at residence.
IP Club
Though veiled away in the Capital Building, the one next to Pho Sach lane, IP’s location is hardly a confidential. Generations of Hanoians have p
On Vietnamese Terms for Homosexuality
DDo^`ng ti'nh luye^'n a'i" is a literal translation via Chinese of that modern neologism "homosexuality" which dates back to but It's entry date into the Vietnamese language isn't very clear to me, but I suspect fairly late by comparison: it did NOT appear in DDa`o Duy Anh's Ha'n Vie^.t Tu+. DDie^?n of , but did show in his Pha'p Vie^.t Tu+. DDie^?n of , and might have limited currency in the journalistic vocabulary of the s. I haven't been able to find any earlier appearance/usage of this word prior to the s. I believe that this word only came into greater vogue/currency with the explosive introduction of Western psychology (not so much the Freudianism which had come in the s, but the pop/family kind which became greatly popular in the s onward) and sexology: especially the boom in sex education/hygiene primers/manuals in the s/60s. This legal title is distinctively "clinical" in flavor: and it seemed to contain limited currency in criminal records, since the practice was not criminalized in Vietnam, or at least never quite so explicitly, until qVietnam's LGBT community witnesses blossoming support at gay lgbtq+ fest parade
When several hundred supporters of LGBT rights took to the streets of Ho Chi Minh Municipality last weekend, one could have been forgiven for fearing the worst.
Strutting down Nguyen Hue pedestrian mall in drag and making a beeline for Town Hall seemed a lovely good way to tempt unwanted attention from the strip's security police.
A plethora of rainbow flags threw the monotony of the city's ubiquitous hammer-and-sickle banners into sharp relief.
In April, the colour and ceremony on Nguyen Hue had been for a more predictable occasion: the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the unveiling of a new statue of Vietnam's revolutionary hero, Ho Chi Minh.
But fears of a crackdown quickly evaporated. Indeed, for a while, Nguyen Hue felt a bit like a LGBT Disneyland.
Children pestered parents for photos with kingly queens, the parade a movable pin cushion of selfie sticks, and even the green-uniformed police contingent appeared more amused than confronted.
In fact, the Communist natio