The lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) community in Vietnam has faced legal barriers as the law currently only recognises two genders, without any acknowledgement of other gender identifications or of same-sex marriage, said Dinh Thi Thu Thuy, head of the Department of Law under the Ministry of Health.
The United Nations in Vietnam showed its support for the LGBTI community in its joint statement issued on May 17 on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT).
Vietnam has seen a radical change in lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) rights over the last decade as the State has made significant steps to protect rights and equality.
The rainbow colours, a widely-recognized symbol of LGBT people, have become popular among Vietnamese and it is not uncommon to see rainbow flags pinned to shirts and on car bumpers in the country.
Hanoi Pride 2017, the country’s most anticipated event for the LGBTQ community, opened on September 18 and runs until September 24 with a series of exhibitions, discussions, film screenings, a bike rally and walking march.
The State President’s Office on July 10 held a press conference to
announce new laws and a resolution that were approved during the seventh
session of the 13th National Assembly in late June.
National Assembly (NA)
deputies in the morning of May 27 discussed draft revisions to the Law
on Housing and the Law on Real Estate Trading during the 13th NA’s
ongoing seventh session.
National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu told the NA Standing
Committee at the opening of their 24th session in Hanoi on January
13 that medical insurance should be made compulsory to cover the whole
population.
The draft revised Marriage and Family Law and the draft Law on
amendments and supplements to some articles of the Law on Health
Insurance drew the most attention at the National Assembly’s sitting in
Hanoi on November 14.
Work on a Vietnamese documentary about the possible legalisation of
same-sex marriage in Vietnam has received funding from Amsterdam 's
International Documentary Festival (IDFA).
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people (LGBT) are still
discriminated against in Vietnam and are often exposed to violence from
their parents and family members, sociologists warned at a recent
conference.
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