The article discusses the unique creative approach of the magazine "Queering" by Adam Nac, illustrating its commitment to showcasing Vietnam's queer culture. Through strategic visual design and collaborations with local contributors, the magazine aims to portray a vibrant, authentic queer scene. In its second issue, the magazine features bold graphics and articles reflecting local nightlife history and challenges stereotypes about queerness being a Western import, highlighting the depth of Vietnam's queer heritage and the transformation of its underground nightlife into a culturally distinct movement.
The stickers that partly cover it are a visual decision that crosses issues - inspired by club stickers used to cover phone cameras at queer parties to 'encourage presence and protect privacy'.
We also aimed to challenge foreign, eroticised narratives about Vietnam by collaborating with 13 Vietnamese story contributors and diaspora voices to authentically reflect our scene.
Unearthing the origins of the cities' queer club cultures, one highlight amongst the issue's content is Where Do We Meet?, shares Jeremy, 'a story where a historian maps queer Vietnamese gathering spots from the 1970s to today, challenging the claim that queerness is a Western import.'
True to Dsuy's colourful and eclectic style, the second instalment boasts a bold visual language that's bursting at the seams with unconventional visual decisions - a 'chaos, fluidity, softness, and joy'.
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