Abstract: I offer my lived experiences as a boy and as a queer teacher who encountered oppression and discrimination against my non-normative gender identity contextualized by Vietnamese gender hegemonies, explored through personal, social, cultural, and religious lenses that include Confucianism and Buddhism. I treat this autoethnographic study (Jones et al., 2016) as a space of engagement, revisiting my memories of being a gay son in a heteronormative family in Vietnam, situating my experiences through the lens of queer theory, alongside my research in the field of gender and sexual minorities in global education.