11 K-Dramas that didn't shy away om gay relatnships | allkpop

Contents:

• GAY M/M CHA - (MOVI & DRAMAS)
• BL / GL / LGBT / GAY CHARACTER / BROMANCE - DRAMAS & MOVI
• BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021
• GAY DRAMAS/MOVI
• 11 K-DRAMAS THAT DIDN'T SHY AWAY OM GAY RELATNSHIPS

GAY M/M CHA - (MOVI & DRAMAS)

However, I wonr how 'll turn out due to the Che media ban on LGBTQ is a reason for most Che BL/Gay themed stuff beg produced Taiwan... The stirrg scen are om the Che fantasy perd seri Word of Honor, the latt h the gay romance genre that has explod populary Cha: boys’ love.

” Subtle gay dramas, adapted om boys’ love webnovels, has bee a lucrative bs Cha, where censorship of anythg LGBTQ-related is tight. But the appete for queer ntent is jt too big to ignore, a mand that not om gay men, but mostly straight least eight shows adapted om novels wh boys’ love romanc are expected to premiere this year across Cha’s major streamg platforms, cludg Alibaba’s You, Tencent Vio, Mango TV, and iQIYI. “This type of queer, more fantastic than real, do ltle jtice to the gay muny, ” said Zhange Ni, a profsor at Virgia Tech who studi Che webnovels.

BL / GL / LGBT / GAY CHARACTER / BROMANCE - DRAMAS & MOVI

”High risk, high returnsMakg and showg boys’ love dramas Cha is a t-and-moe game between the prof-driven entertament dtry and the homophobic censorship 2016, the h teen seri Addicted (also known as Hero), a drama wh explic gay scen, was pulled om onle streamg platform iQIYI before uld release s last three episos.

In 2018, the sci-fi drama Guardian went offle on vio hostg se You two months after s release, even though the origal gay romance storyle was rewrten as iendship. Prit, thor of Guardian and Word of Honor, will see at least four more of her novels adapted to as the genre thriv, homosexualy remas taboo Cha. While Word of Honor was praised for tellg a movg love story, s productn team was reful to avoid explic mentns of homosexualy durg the show’s productn pany ially agreed to talk to VICE about their boys’ love dramas but nceled the terview after learng that the qutns will touch on the homosexualy implied their works.

‘Socialist brotherhood’Knowg viewers jokgly ll homoerotic relatnships the dramas “socialist brotherhood, ” a reference to how on-screen homosexualy has to be disguised as bromanc le wh official state the two protagonists of You’s Word of Honor shared tense kiss the origal novel, producers of the drama adaptatn had to rort to microexprsns and symbolism to nvey the pair’s feelgs for each other. ” While explic mentns of homosexualy are banned, s lns of fans had no problem ferrg sexual tensn between the two leads, om their poetic flirtg and lgerg eye ntact, almost every episo.

BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021

For example, the two characters e their swords to cut off each other’s sleev, a 2, 000-year-old Han Dynasty reference to gay love. ”Queerbag for shFor all s appeal to homoeroticism, the boys’ love bs Cha surviv by avoidg any discsn of LGBTQ rights while focg on the physil attractivens of s male characters — a batn amics say has ntributed to the silencg of sexual mori Che society. “By htg at male homoerotic love, the directors and actors are appropriatg the tert of funü and gay life, tryg to turn the to sh and traffic, ” said Ge Liang, a rearcher at Kg’s College London who studi boys’ love lerature Cha.

“But stead of speakg up for the LGBTQ muny, they stay le wh Cha’s official policy on gay people: keep silent and keep them sful. But the stggl are visible to the public eye, as state censors ban almost all reprentatn of homosexualy mass media.

GAY DRAMAS/MOVI

In 2018, a wrer was sentenced to more than 10 years jail for wrg and sellg a gay porn novel; months later, when the film Bohemian Rhapsody was released Cha, parts pictg Freddie Mercury’s relatnships wh men were unceremonly cut. Gay people Cha have poted out how different boys’ love stori are om their real-life experienc — the characters dramas are often picted as young, urbanized, handsome, and wealthy, and rarely e across the hostily that gay people actually face.

Photo: STR / AFPDaniel Hsu, a 31-year-old gay man workg as a teacher Beijg, said while many people enjoy watchg boys’ love dramas, they may not be terted the problems nontg gay people the real world. Where Che state media often portrays gay men as victims of crime, enemi to tradnal valu, and sourc of social stabily, subtle boys’ love dramas have perhaps bee the bt form of queer reprentatn Cha’s state-sanctned pop culture. Anthony Shen, a 24-year-old gay man Beijg and an avid viewer of boys’ love dramas, said that boys’ love dramas, as subtle as their homoerotic unrton may be, uld lead to wir public acceptance of the LGBTQ muny.

The dramas also offer gay people Cha “vir mental satisfactn, ” he said, by seeg their sexualy reprented a reprsive om LGBT Rights Advocy Cha said that while he wished gay actors would be given the opportuny to portray same-sex love on screen, was nohels tertg to see straight men tryg to act gay. There are que a number of TV seri/dramas om Oriental untri w/ gay characters: many om Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, and some om Philipp, Hong Kong, and Sgapore. 5/10anger sle: 4/10 cw: transphobia, ath of a (mor) trans character, suici, sual homophobia, sual biphobia, gang vlence, rape, attempted rape, domtic abe, murr, nsfw, cheatg, nudyma me cry?

11 K-DRAMAS THAT DIDN'T SHY AWAY OM GAY RELATNSHIPS

While i nt remend to everyone ( gets pretty heavy) i thk if you n al wh the cws above i thk you will love this transphobia, rape, homophobia, domtic abe, etc. 's about as good as you image based on the hype and maybe more they censored the non gay element but the subtext is so obv youd have to be like, Really straight to not pick up on you n tell that they love each other, even if they dont kiss onscreen or get married for realand the appeal of the show don't end at the relatnship between the leads. No, 's an trigug story about fay (cludg found fay), murr mysteri, moraly, what means to be good or evil, and marxism cw: murr, homophobia, homophobic bullyg, gang vlencema me cry?

I was close thoughsrstory: 7/10characters: 9/10pairgs: 8/10 (brought down by lacklter sendary pair)anger sle: 2/10worthy of beg nsired one of the bt cw (spoiler ee): homophobia, parental abe, animal ath, fay ath, suici, some nsfw at the startma me cry?