Exhibition supports LGBT rights
(VOV) -Thirty paintings, photographs, installation images, and handicraft pieces created by lesbian artists are on display at a Hanoi exhibition titled “Purple-Love without Limitation”, opened on May 10.
Some of the exhibited works express dreams of an accepted and happy same-sex marriage, while others illustrate love’s desires and anxieties, often forced into secrecy by the threat of community discrimination and prejudice.
All want the social support and understanding that would enable them to live openly without fear of reprisals.
The exhibition’s opening ceremony featured an interactive theatre piece performed by two lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. It communicated the pressures of pursuing freedom in love while being bound by society’s outmoded strict sex and gender traditionalism.
The event, jointly organised by the Vietnamese Center for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender-Family-Women, and Adolescents (CSAGA) with sponsorship from the Swedish embassy—is in support of the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) (May 17).
