Slang for gay in viet namese

Discover essential Vietnamese words for LGBTQ! Explore inclusive terminology in this easy guide to enhance your understanding of diversity. Visit our Vietnamese Gay Dictionary to learn how to say gay in Vietnamese. It is part of our LGBT dictionary with more than entries from 68 languages. Pe^ dde^" ("pe'de'", short for the French "pe'deraste" whose English counterpart is the Latinate cognate "pederast") is probably the most common modern/contemporary (post s/60s?) byword for a gay person in Vietnam.

So for context, Vietnamese have many terms to describe "gay" just like English and among those is the word "pê đê". It is a degorartory term to describe gay men used by the French insinuating that gay men are pedofiles. The most common way to refer to someone who is gay in Vietnamese is to use the phrase đồng tính nam, which literally means “same-sex male.” However, this term is not commonly used in everyday conversation, and it’s often considered more formal or academic.

This term is distinctively "clinical" in flavor: and it seemed to have limited currency in criminal records, since the practice was not criminalized in Vietnam, or at least never quite so explicitly, until quite late if at all: a friend of mine who's a journalist in Vietnam and who had written a few features on the subject did tell me, though without concrete documentary evidence, that there are officially laws against it in Communist Vietnam, but I can't tell for sure until I can find documentary evidence in my hand to prove it one way or the other.

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The earliest usage of this term that I can find so far is the s. Bo'ng la. There are many conflicting semantic and cultural exegeses on the various high-charged terms: "bo'ng", "la. It's a description of the act, and not so much a person. Needless to say, it was included in earlier Sino- Vietnamese dictionaries the earliest instance of which I have been able to date to And in medieval Europe the term had been used broadly to encompass all sexual deviancy, including bestiality, so there!

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