Declared by society to be abnormal creatures, generations of Vietnamese LGBTQ communities spent their life in silence, suffering from violence, marginalization and exclusion. They had seemed predestined by the Confucian tradition, which has been vastly inherited from the Asian society, stigmatized with all types of social evils. Incredibly, the globalization of social media in the 21st century has given a breath of fresh air to the Vietnamese LGBTQ movement, waking it up and driving important changes of Vietnamese social perspectives regarding the role and status of LGBTQ people in the country. LGBTQ activism has advocated and promoted equal rights for queer persons and made huge progress in different aspects of same-sex sexuality and relationships in Vietnam and entwining with the rise of a queer voice from daily activities to promotional rainbow events. In such a decade, the social portrait of the country has been reshaped with the coming out of the queer people, the improvement of their life and the recognition of LGBTQ identity and dignity in modern Vietnam. The paper examines the background in which the Vietnamese LGBTQ activism was born and develops, its challenging process and its distinctive contribution to the confirmation of local LGBTQ status. The progress of the movement in striving for legal and social equality, as it is taking place in a strictly controlled and authoritarian country, is also studied to highlight the development of indigenous queer voices as a social innovation and a redefinition of the breadth of community life in 21st century Vietnam.

Authors:
Tien Ly Quyet, Eastern International University, Vietnam

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Posted by James Alexander Gordon

Last updated: 2023-02-23 23:45:00

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