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Drafted: My Year in Vietnam as a Gay Anti-War Soldier (An Excerpt)
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By Harry Haines
Like most other juvenile guys in 1969, I spent a lot of second figuring out how to avoid the Vietnam War draft. As I completed my undergrad degree at Southern Illinois University, I knew my time was running out. I had managed to secure the college deferment, and I even made the smart move of transferring my Selective Service board from my native Modern Jersey to Illinois, gaining some extra time as the bureaucracy slowly played out.
A couple of fellow students inspired me with their Beat the Draft stories. One of them returned to campus after a holiday trip advocate home to Chicago and proudly announced that his father had bribed the right Selective Service operative with $4,000. He was house free with a coveted 4-F draft designation. We all wondered how to scrape together $4,000.
The other guy had the good luck to be taken out by his buddies on a drunken spree on the night before his induction physical was scheduled 123 miles away in St. Louis. The guy passed out from drink, so his pals left him slouched on the bench at the bus
LGBT Rights Are Not Politically Sensitive in Vietnam
Vietnam’s National Assembly has made national history by enshrining into law provisions that acknowledge the existence of same-sex attracted couples. The revised law has been in effect since January 2015. Although the government withdrew an option on full equality , the National Assembly has removed its ban on lgbtq+ marriage.
Dr. Jörg Wischermann, what does this say about Vietnam in the context of the region, where some countries, such as Singapore, continue to exclude gay marriage and even gay behavior?
Jörg Wischermann: Vietnam is obeying a worldwide trend to give female homosexual, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people the same rights heterosexual people and couples enjoy. But Vietnam is not the attraction that Singapore and Thailand – for example, Bangkok – are for LGBT people. Among other things, this might own to do with the fact that Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh Town still lack the infrastructure the LGBT community creates, likes and attracts (clubs, bars, salons, theatres, cinemas, etc.).
Moreover, Vietnam’s national and local governments do not seem to acquire recognized what Singapore’s government once realized: LGBT tourists are more often t
Vietnam says homosexuality ‘not a disease’ in win for gay rights
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Phong Vuong was preparing for the launch of a campaign advocating for the legalisation of gay marriage when he heard that the government had decided that homosexuality was “not a disease”.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health also announced that it was outlawing conversion therapy.
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end of list“This announcement that being LGBT is not a disease and condemning the exercise of conversion therapy, this is like a dream,” Vuong, the LGBTI rights program manager at The Institute for Studies of Society, Economy, and Environment (iSEE), told Al Jazeera.
“It is something that we never thought would have happened, let alone coming from the most trusted cause for medical information in Vietnam … I think the impact on queer youth will be very, very evident.”
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HOMOSEXUALITY IN VIETNAM
HOMOSEXUALITY IN VIETNAM
Homosexuality is regarded as a disease in Vietnam. It is also ranked as a "social evil" along with prostitution and drug abuse. Even so historically it has been tolerated. There are no laws or regulations on homosexuality or homosexuals in Vietnam, and no speak of of gays as a risk group for HIV and AIDS.
According to the U.S. Department of State: Consensual same-sex sexual task is not criminalized, although by decree, individuals may not change their gender. There was no reported official discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, but societal discrimination and stigma were pervasive. A lesbian, gay, double attraction, and transgender (LGBT) society existed but was largely underground. A 2009 survey of more than 3,200 LGBT individuals by the Institute for Studies of Society, Economy, and the Environment reported that 4.5 percent claimed they were victims of assault or physical abuse by homophobic individuals and 6.5 percent claimed they lost jobs because of their sexual orientation. The institute also reported that government officials, the Women’s Union, and the Lawyers Association participated in sensitivi