Abstract
This study critically analyzes the disjuncture between Vietnam’s LGBTQI+ rights movement, including its Pride event series, and the lived experiences of local queer communities in Vietnam. Although Pride events have enhanced queer visibility and driven legal-social reforms locally, the underlying identity politics of Pride fail to fully capture the nuanced perspectives of queer individuals within Vietnamese sociocultural contexts. Using ethnographic data collected over thirteen months in several cities and provinces in Vietnam, this study aims to emphasize the local in queer studies. This article contributes to queer studies in a post-colonial context. By foregrounding the voices of local queer community members, this research illuminates the complexities and tensions that exist between identity politics of the broader global LGBTQI+ movement and local understandings regarding queer visibility and recognition in non-Western, postcolonial settings like Vietnam.
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