Our Journey
2024
🍾 Vănguard is officially incorporated as Vănguard LLC
2023
✨ Featured as speaker at University of Connecticut (Storrs)
2022
✨ Featured at "Who Belongs Here? Who Doesn't" exhibition (Boston)
✨ Hosted a 2-day Queer Viet Retreat (Boston)
2021
📰 Recognizing grassroots arts publications and media outlets in Boston (City of Boston)
✨ Featured as speaker at Fulbright University Vietnam (Hanoi)
2020
🖼️ Exhibited at UMass Boston - "Dot Now" (Boston)
🖼️ Exhibited at Sasaki - 'REFLECTED' (Watertown)
✨ Featured as panelist at UMass Boston - 'Asian American Artists in Dorchester' (Boston)
✨ Featured as panelist at MIT - 'Technologies of Resistance - Archiving for Feminist Futures' (Cambridge)
✨ Hosted Zine Workshop at Northeastern University (Boston)
2019
Release of Vănguard 5
📰 Queer to the Front (Dig Boston)
📰 Exhibition at Dot Art Project called ‘the epicenter of queer Vietnamese art’ (Dorchester Reporter)
📰 Vănguard Zine LGBTQ Vietnamese Activism on Exhibit (DVAN)
📰 'Dot Now' exhibition reflects artists' keen sense of community
🖼️ Exhibited at Lawndale Art Center (Houston)
📑 Archived by the Library of Congress
✨ Featured in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ)
2018
📰 Vietnamese & Unapologetically Queer (Neocha)
🖼️ Exhibited at IA&A At Hillyer (Washington DC)
🖼️ Exhibited at NY Queer Zine Fair (New York)
🖼️ Exhibited at MA Feminist Zine Festival (Boston)
🖼️ Exhibited at National Queer API Conference (San Francisco)
✨ Featured in RICE documentary (Ho Chi Minh City)
📑 Archived at inpages (Ho Chi Minh City)
📑 Archived at Hanoi Zine Library (Hanoi)
2017
Release of Vănguard 4
📑 Added to the Southeast Asian Archive collection at UC Irvine
2016
Release of Vănguard 3
📰 Unpacking the Linguistic Legacies of Colonization (Masq Magazine)
📰 BBP Hosmillo interview Aiden Nguyen (Queer Southeast Asia)
📰 Vănguard The Vietnamese LGBTQ Literary & Art Zine (The Pacific Center)
📰 Local LGBTQ Zine Launches Crowdfunding Campaign, Call for Submissions (Saigoneer)
📰 Starting a Queer Revolution (DVAN)
🖼️ Exhibited at UC Santa Barbara Glass Box Gallery (Isla Vista)
🖼️ Exhibited at SF Camerawork (San Francisco)
🖼️ Exhibited at Singapore Art Book Fair (Singapore)
✨ Featured as speakers at the US Consulate - American Center (Ho Chi Minh City)
✨ Featured as speaker at Oberlin College (Oberlin)
✨ Featured as panelist at Simmons College (Boston)
2015
Release of Vănguard 2
📰 Vănguard Giving a Voice to Saigon’s LGBT Artists (Saigoneer)
🖼️ Exhibited at Nhà Sàn Collective (Hanoi)
🖼️ Exhibited at Dia Projects (Ho Chi Minh City)
✨ Featured at San Francisco State University (San Francisco)
📑 Archived at the Papercut Zine Library (Boston)