HANOI - Police and local authorities in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City were up in arms yesterday over what was believed "to be the communist country's first known wedding between two men. The wedding, involving an Australia Vietnamese man and his Vietnamese boyfriend, took place last week at a restaurant in front of more than 100 guests.
Homosexuality is still widely viewed as an alien phenomenon in Vietnam. "It should be publicly condemned," said the vice director of the city's state run Consulting Centre for Love, Marriage and Families.