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GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY
When Hong Seok-cheon me out as a gay man 2000, many thought would be the end of his reer. Dpe 20 years passg sce Hong's g out, he remas the most proment openly gay celebry South Korea. Wh this societal ntext, may then be nfg why South Korea would produce a show about a prumably gay relatnship between the Crown Prce and his tutor.
(If you haven't already, check out "Your Name Engraved Here, " a 2020 Taiwane romance film about a gay male relatnship 1980's Taiwan, on Netflix. Keep md South Korea is still relatively unacceptg of LGBTQIA+ to this day, as gay marriage is still illegal. LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space.
At the mimum the story has a really posive Bi/gay msage the form of the Prce Hwi and 'his' royal tutor. Morn Cha has a plited relatnship wh homosexualy: It was crimalized 1997, but queer dividuals ntue to face social stigma and issu like nversn therapy and censorship of LGBTQ topics on Weibo. Some historians, however, argue that the suatn was much different ancient history: In Che history, wh Tamkang Universy rearchg Liu Demg even suggtg a 2009 paper that homo-erotic relatnships were trendy among noble and tellectual men durg the Qg dynasty.