Vietnam bans transgender players from participating in national women’s football championship and the Philippines-based pro-gaming organizer Garena eSports chose to limit the number of gay and transgender competitors in its all-female tournaments.
Many Asian countries have congratulated Vietnam during an international meeting for being a model for its non discriminatory and caring attitude towards its LGBT community.
Despite the government's pro-gay stance, society's marginalizing and prejudice against men who have sex with men put them at a greater risk of contracting HIV, says UNAIDS.
The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) is the largest annual LGBT solidarity action and will take place on May 17th 2014. This years theme is 'Free Expression', and there's loads of events in the region, so find one near you to join.
Come May, Vietnam’s National Assembly will have concluded two years of deliberation on amendments to the Law on Marriage and Family and in all likelihood end its current ban on marriage between same-sex couples.
Vietnam's move to legislate marriage equality is a ruse to make it look "cool" and promote its new face of modernity for the government has failed to educate the nation's conservative base that recognizes same sex relations as taboo, says a Vietnamese gay activist.
What exactly is happening in Thailand and Vietnam on law reform to recognise same-sex relationships? Doug Sanders, back home in Thailand from two weeks in Hanoi, reports.
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