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LGBT group says it’s been ousted from Tet parade

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A coalition of lesbian and gay Vietnamese groups was told to ‘sacrifice’ and not march in Westminster’s annual Tet parade, a Lunar New Year event expected to draw as many as 10,000 spectators to Little Saigon this weekend, according to a spokesperson for the LGBT group.

After asking the group not to participate, said spokesperson Ai Van, ‘they suggested that we obtain our own permit and have our own parade, and not be a part of the community parade.’

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The Tet parade, scheduled for Sunday, is a tradition dating back nearly three decades. The LGBT coalition has marched in the parade the last three years, over the objections of some religious leaders in Orange County’s Vietnamese community.

LGBT participants last week submitted $100 along with an application to join again this year, according to Pierre Tran of the Gay Vietnamese Alliance.

Monday afternoon, about three dozen people protested in front of the office of the parade organizers, the Vietnamese American Federation of Southern California. Its leader, Nghia X. Nguyen, was not present to comment.

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Anh Do

Anh Do, the community engagement editor at the Los Angeles Times, works across the newsroom to spotlight our journalists and journalism, bringing our diverse talent closer to the audiences they serve via virtual and live events. She’s a member of the recruiting team and also represents the paper in communicating with the public who have questions about The Times’ journalistic standards and practices. Before this job, she spent 11 years in Metro covering Asian American issues and general assignments. A second-generation journalist, she has reported for the Seattle Times, the Orange County Register and Nguoi Viet Daily News. Do, born in Saigon, is a graduate of USC with degrees in journalism and English. Her writing on culture and trauma has won awards from Columbia University and the Asian American Journalists Assn. She received Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and, in 2016, was part of The Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attacks. Apart from words, she’s passionate about all things canine, spending nearly three decades supporting dog rescue around the globe.

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