Voice of OC (https://voiceofoc.org/tag/vietnamese-american-federation-of-southern-california/)
This year, revelers had three major Tet festivals to choose from to help ring in the lunar new year. Parades in Garden Grove and Westminster, with the Garden Grove parade new this year, were the result of a split in leadership, but not a split in loyalties by the community.
The Year of the Pig is celebrated in Little Saigon at the annual Tet Parade.
With family lines of communication weakened by war trauma, language barriers, and cultural rifts, Vietnamese Americans have a difficult time talking with those closest to them about sexual and gender identity issues.
Activist groups are expected to be in court Thursday to challenge their exclusion from Westminster’s annual Lunar New Year Parade.