A Photographer explores family, acceptance and being queer in Vietnam
I could never have foreseen how my mom’s acceptance of my queerness would transform me. I now carry myself differently; I gained much more confidence and self-assurance. With her acceptance, I started wondering about other young queer people and their…
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Vietnam’s first openly gay candidate seeks change with parliament run
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LGBT rights activist nominates himself for National Assembly seat
A Hanoi LGBTI rights and gender equality activist has nominated himself to contest elections to the National Assembly and Hanoi People’s Council in May.
SexEdu by Trang wants to educate Vietnamese youth to set them on right path
With the aim to provide young people with knowledge about sex and gender properly, a 28-year-old Vietnamese woman launched a website named SexEdu by Trang despite some negative comments.
Vietnam to have 1.5 million more men than women by 2034
Vietnam will have 1.5 million more men than women aged 15-49 by 2034 if the sex ratio at birth imbalance remains unaddressed, a study has found.
Sexual harassment rife in Vietnam’s conservation sector, survey reveals
Five out of six people working in the conservation sector in Vietnam say that they have directly experienced some form of sexual harassment in their work environment.
Vietnam faces gender inequality as consequence of gender-biased sex selection
Vietnam is on the verge of gender inequality as a result of gender-biased sex selection since many families in the country still favor boys over girls, resulting in more than 40,000 baby girls unborn every year.
Vietnam among top countries of sex ratio imbalance at birth
As Vietnam is listed among three countries with the highest rate of sex ratio imbalance at birth, local authorities are making efforts to raise public awareness and tighten regulations to shorten the gap.
Three Ha Long pimps probed over elite cruise ship service
Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security on Tuesday launched a criminal investigation against three pimps for brokering sexual services aboard cruise ships in world-famous Ha Long Bay.
Used condoms cleaned and resold in southern Vietnam
Market authorities in Binh Duong Province have seized 324,000 used condoms that were about to be cleaned and resold in the market.
Eight Vietnamese jailed for pimping for foreign tourists
A Khanh Hoa Province court on Thursday sentenced eight people to prison for supplying sex workers to foreigners, mainly Chinese tourists, while two Chinese kingpins are still at large.
40,800 female births doomed in Vietnam every year
Every year, the long-standing preference for boys in Vietnam’s society terminates 40,800 baby girls before they are born, according to the United Nations Population Fund.
Vietnam lotto shows just the ticket for marginalised LGBT community
Each night that Nha Vy steps proudly on stage in her traditional Vietnamese ao dai, or sometimes mini dress and heels, memories grow fainter of the taunts she endured as a transgender woman in her rural village.
Glorifying sex and CIA in Vietnam War-era Bangkok
New museum in city’s infamous Patpong red light zone reveals the CIA agents who used to hold court in its go-go bars
Abortion still ‘used as contraceptive’ in Vietnam
Huong has had two abortions in two years. No one had ever talked to her about sex: not her parents, not her teachers — and her friends knew as little as she did.
The millennials changing the face of sex education in Vietnam
Tu Nguyen gave up a sought-after job in a mission to help young people in Vietnam better understand sex and sexuality.
Vietnam wants young people to marry by 30
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is nudging young people to tie the knot before they turn 30 and start having babies as officials worry about low fertility rates in some parts of the country.
LGBT-themed movie a Netflix Vietnam favorite
Thua Me Con Di (Goodbye Mother), an LGBT-themed movie, is the sole local production in Netflix Vietnam’s ranking of 10 most watched dramas.
Vietnam accused of teaching young people that being gay is a ‘disease’
Government has ignored laws intended to prevent stigma, discrimination and bullying, Human Rights Watch claims