South Korea’s gay upl fight discrimatn, one law at a time - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• GAY SOUTH KOREA TRAVEL GUI
• GAY AND TRANS SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE ABED SOUTH KOREAN ARY
• GAY LIFE SOUTH KOREA
• SOUTH KOREA’S GAY UPL FIGHT FOR REGNN, ONE LAW AT A TIME

GAY SOUTH KOREA TRAVEL GUI

Origatg 1960s Japan, where  was known as “yaoi, ” BL typilly picts two men a homoerotic relatnship. Some LGBTQ activists have acced BL stori of fetishizg and appropriatg gay culture. Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step.

Bdette, who also intifi as gay and is a longstandg BL fan, said the genre will shake up nservative views on genr and sexualy South Korea. “Whether you are a heterosexual woman tryg to ject your sexual tonomy to the world, or you are a gay man who wants to see posive reprentatns of male-male romance, BL n be ed, ” he said. ” One petn sent to the Mistry of Jtice prophied, whout any evince, that “homosexuals will try to sce everyone” if the bill were to bee law.

GAY AND TRANS SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE ABED SOUTH KOREAN ARY

” In May, a top adviser to Print Yoon said “homosexualy n be treated, ” like a smokg hab (he later rigned). Prottant Pastor Yonah Lee, a stnch supporter of Yoon’s polici, is often lled this untry’s facto “ex-gay” spokperson. ” Pastor Yonah Lee, center, leads an "ex-gay" march LifePastor Lee acknowledged that discrimatn agast LGBTQ dividuals is “wrong, ” but he argued that the Bible “nmns homosexualy” and baselsly claimed that an anti-discrimatn law that explicly protects LGBTQ people would “force church to close.

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GAY LIFE SOUTH KOREA

While there are very ltle rights protectg LGBT cizens, South Korea's tolerance of the LGBT muny is growg and a gay neighborhood exists the cy of Seoul where visors n enjoy the nightlife to the early hours of the morng. “Merry Queer” -host Hong Seok-cheon—one of the most proment openly gay celebri South Korea—spoke to TIME along wh the shows' producer Lim Chang-hyuck and “His Man” st member Lee Jeong-ho on what the shows mean for queer reprentatn.

Elska Magaze, the gay photography and culture project that travels around the world meetg men om diverse LGBTQ muni, releas s latt issue. "This has been the most difficult issue to make yet", says Liam Campbell, edor and chief photographer of Elska, "We ntacted lerally hundreds of guys but the vast majory preferred to stay 'discreet', fearg that exposure any sort of gay media uld jeopardise their jobs, their fai, everythg.

The rult is a readg experience that giv an timate look si queer Seoul, as if we travelled together wh the Elska team to Seoul and met the guys real of the men the Seoul issue clu:U L, who shar his experience durg a trip to a tradnal bathhoe (a jjimjilbang), told through a lens of uncertaty and self-nscns;Jay S, who scrib the moment when his mother nonts him wh the accatn that he is gay;Ivan J, who reunts an afternoon of vegetable-aid masturbatn set to the soundtrack of hymnal Bach;Heezy Y, who talks about the difficulti of fdg succs a society so full of expectatns and nformy;Jose S-M, who as one of a large number of foreigners livg Seoul reflects upon his seven years livg the cy;Jam K, who discs tryg to rencile how to be a Korean man agast the opposg standard of masculy set by his Seoul is 180 pag. Ex-South Korean soldier says he was abed for beg gay. The South Korean soldier had seen another low-rankg nscript, emed effemate and spected of beg gay, beg sexually abed, beaten and forced to drk om a toilet bowl by other soldiers.

SOUTH KOREA’S GAY UPL FIGHT FOR REGNN, ONE LAW AT A TIME

In a statement to CNN, South Korea’s Defense Mistry said had polici place “to protect homosexual soldiers’ human rights and to guarantee an environment which they may serve the ary equally wh other soldiers, ” and provid specialist unselors for victims of sexual vlence and human rights ab.

Dpe a ary directive passed 2009 llg for greater protectns for gay soldiers, LGBT nscripts still face spicn, harassment and prosecutn unr Article 92-6 of the Milary Crimal Act, which mak sexual activy between men punishable by up to two years prison. Gay sex is illegal the ary whether happens on or off base, and regardls of whether one party is not an enlisted soldier.

In 2017, dozens of men were arrted what was scribed as a “gay wch-hunt, ” wh superrs g gay datg apps and spectns of soldiers’ phon and social media to track down LGBT nscripts.