Then: LGBT activist

Later: Founder, Hanoi International Queer Film Week

When 18-year-old LGBT activist Bao Chau Nguyen participated in the 2016 session of the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum in Thailand, he was one of Salzburg Global’s youngest Fellows. Within a year, Nguyen had launched the Hanoi International Queer Film Week, Vietnam’s first legal LGBT film festival. Nguyen credits Salzburg Global with inspiring the festival, which featured films from a number of his fellow LGBT Forum participants. He also works with NextGEN, an organization that supports the LGBT community in Vietnam, with the hope of expanding LGBT human rights and visibility across Asia.