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The Guardian highlights the three Asian nations among a list of those advancing LGBT rights that also includes Colombia, Mozambique and Jamaica.

Over the last few months, US Ambassador Ted Osius and his husband Clayton Bond have become the most prominent gay couple in Vietnam.

The US Consul General has promised to work and promote LGBT rights in Vietnam and enable the Vietnamese society to further equality and social acceptance in the country.

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.