The so called secret places to eat that he introduces have already been featured on so many travel bloggers website with instructions on how to get there, example, Dinh cafe which served excellent egg coffee.
Really bad experience with this so called local tour guide called Tony Romeo in Hanoi, whose real name should be Nguyen Dung!įirst, his tours are conducted in a very messy manner, you find yourself darting from place to place within the Old Quarters in a complete mess trying the food, which he does not explain. Hope this can be shared with others who might want to book Gay Hanoi Tours in Vietnam! Sharing this bad experience with a local tour guide called Tony Romeo in Hanoi!
Also, there have been various notable LGBTQ Vietnamese movies made, such as “Madam Phung's Last Journey” in 2014, “Finding Phong” in 2017, and the “My Best Gay Friends” YouTube series in 2013, which went viral: For example, the former USA Ambassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius is openly gay and was not shy about posing with his husband and baby. We even have a growing gay scene in Saigon and Hanoi.Īlso, more visibility of successful LGBTQ persons in the media helps society see us as something normal and positive rather than as something wrong or an illness. Today, of course, all that has changed, especially with the advent of Grindr and all the other gay dating apps over the past decade. At best, gay guys would seek each other out via well-known cruising spots or by friends of friends. Back in those days, the Internet as we know it today simply didn't exist and there were no queer hangouts around. It was quite hard when I was younger because traditional Catholic Vietnamese society was not always so open and supportive toward gays. “you better clean up your room if you wanna find a good husband!!” What's it like growing up gay in Vietnam? She's always been accepting of me being gay and we always make jokes about finding husbands. For example, she now worries about me growing old alone without anyone to care for me in my old age. Michael explained that he sped out of there as quickly as possible.I think my mother, her main concern is my safety well-being and most of all my happiness in life.
However, they were interrupted when two of the jocks from Zach’s rugby team walked in. When the pair met in the bathroom they began making out in one of the stools. He explained that he “assumed” he was gay “but I didn’t think too hard on it because I didn’t want to be”. Michael explained: “I was so nervous, I was thinking everyone must know I’m about to get a blowjob”. The boy, who the twins described as an ’emo Pete Wentz’, made plans to meet with Michael in a bathroom during a class. Michael went to school as usual but his day became more interesting when a boy approached him and asked him if he wanted to make out in the bathroom. The revelation came about when Zach was sick with a stomach bug and took a week off school. “And I thought Zach was the straight twin,” Michael added. Michael was the straight twin in my mind.” Zach explained: “Me and Michael did not know each other was gay – we were handling our own problems.