Owner of Vietnamese Attitude Magazine arrested as part of gambling ring
Among ten people who were arrested in Ho Chi Min suspected of running an illegal gambling ring was the owner of Attitude Magazine’s Vietnamese franchise. According to Thanh Nien Daily, 10 were arrested...
View ArticleTrans women banned from playing in Vietnamese football tournament
Transgender women have been banned from participating in the National Women’s Football Championship in Vietnam. The announcement of the ban was made by the Vietnam Football Federation this week. Duong...
View ArticleVietnamese lesbian couple hold Valentine’s Day wedding on a plane
A Vietnamese lesbian couple have celebrated Valentine’s Day – by celebrating their wedding onboard a plane. Same-sex marriage is not legally recognised in Vietnam – but last month the government...
View ArticleHundreds of Vietnamese trans people demand new identification
Nearly 600 transgender people in Vietnam have proposed having their names and identification papers changed. in the wake of Vietnamese Pride, the trans community have come together to demand the...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court justice performs same-sex wedding in Vietnam for gay Ambassador
US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has performed a ceremonial same-sex wedding in Vietnam – for a gay Ambassador. Justice Ginsburg, who was one of the five justices to rule earlier this year...
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Vietnam has built an LGBT friendly medical centre
Vietnam has built an LGBT-friendly medical centre so the community can have safe access to health care, sexual health information and counselling. The centre is working towards improving access to...
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Official gender recognition for trans people could be coming to Vietnam — but...
Vietnam has begun drafting a law to protect the rights of transgender people by allowing them to change their legal gender. The potential new law from the Ministry of Health would provide recognition...
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‘Tell my mum I love her’: Bisexual teenager hanged himself because he was...
A teenager said to his friends that being bisexual made him depressed and asked them to “tell my mother I love her” before hanging himself. Harry Corbett, 19, was travelling around Asia and Oceania...
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Two women left a rose ceremony on The Bachelor to be together
Two women on the Vietnamese version of The Bachleor have dramatically abandoned a rose ceremony to be with each other. After bachelor Quoc Trung decided against giving a rose to Minh Thu, therefore...
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The lesbian couple who left The Bachelor to be together are happier than ever
The queer contestants who left a rose ceremony on the Vietnamese version of The Bachelor to be with each other are still happily together. Since September, when Minh Thu responded to her elimination...
View ArticleMarriage equality on the cards for Taiwan
Two women were married in a Buddhist ceremony in Taiwan last weekend, in the first known ceremony of its kind to be held in the country. While no Asian countries have actually fully legalised marriage...
View ArticleVietnam: Trans woman to lose official legal recognition
The only Vietnamese transgender person to have her gender reassignment officially recognised has heard that the decision will be revoked and she will once again be officially considered male. According...
View ArticleVietnam: Decision on trans woman’s official identity recognition awaits input...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Justice has ordered that a decision to revoke the country’s first official recognition of a trans woman’s identity be halted until the prime minister can weigh in on the...
View ArticleVietnam: Health Ministry recommends legalisation of same-sex marriage
Vietnam’s Health Ministry has recommended that same-sex marriage should be legalised, citing research which shows the stigmatisation faced by LGBT people can have serious health repercussions. The...
View ArticleUS: Obama nominates gay man as ambassador to Vietnam
Barack Obama has nominated a gay diplomat to be the US ambassador to Vietnam, the first appointment of a gay US ambassador in Asia. Ted Osius, a diplomat who previously served as a Deputy at embassies...
View ArticleVietnam: Country’s largest Pride parade held in Hanoi
Vietnam’s largest ever Pride parade has been held in the city of Hanoi today. Around 300 activists took to the streets of the nation’s capital in the parade, which is only the third to be permitted in...
View ArticleAmerican pastor: God should drop a nuclear bomb on the US because we have gay...
Pastor Rick Scarborough has claimed that God would be justified in destroying the US because it has gay ambassadors. In a sermon at his Florida church, which was reported by Right Wing Watch: “Every...
View ArticleVietnam abolishes ban on same-sex marriage
The Vietnamese government repealed a ban on same-sex marriage on New Year’s Day. While the government does not officially recognise or provide legal protections for same-sex marriages, weddings can now...
View ArticleTrans lawyer and Vietnam veteran launches scathing attack on Donald Trump...
Trans lawyer and Vietnam veteran Mia Yamamoto has slammed Donald Trump’s trans military ban as a “policy of exclusion, oppression and marginalisation by the government”. The Japanese-American lawyer...
View ArticleChildren in Vietnam are still being taught that being gay is ‘a disease’
Despite recent government promises to protect LGBT+ people, children in Vietnam are still taught at home and at school that being gay is a “disease”, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch...
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