2013 A New High For Vietnam Gay Pride

While not quite on par with Boystown, the Castro District or KeyWest, the news coming out of Vietnam these days resembles less and less the stuff of third-world homophobia and more and more the growing sense of pride and community that these famed American enclaves have come to represent.

In 2011, director Ngang released Lost in Paradise, what many consider to be the first film in Vietnam to deal openly with gay themes and characters. (It was a critical and commercial success.)

But it wasn’t until this year when events began to take a dramatic turn for the better for the LGBT community. In the span of less than six months, both the Health and Justice Ministries have called on their government to allow – or at least debate and consider – same-sex marriage and the country’s National Assembly will take up the issue later this year.

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