Seoul, South Korea (AP) -- Thoands of gay rights supporters marched unr heavy police guard the South Korean pal on Saturday as they celebrated the cy’s first major Pri para three years after a COVID-19 hiat.
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Rabow Actn, a aln of sexual mory groups South Korea, acced Seoul Cy of “aligng wh homophobia and discrimatn” by allowg a Christian group to “block our gatherg. ”Tens of thoands of pri participants have gathered at Seoul Plaza ont of the South Korean pal’s Cy Hall every year sce 2014, except for a two-year hiat 2020 and 2021 due to the vid-19 LGBTQ rights rema a ntent issue South Korea, amid entrenched genr norms and domant social year, about 15, 000 unterprotters backed by Christian and socially nservative groups rallied agast the Pri event, which had tens of thoands of participants, yellg homophobic slogans through loudspeakers to the rabow-filled Seoul Plaza.
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“The day is when the weather is forest to be good and if we were to postpone, the ncert would be right the monsoon season, ” said Kim M-tae, a spokman for the broadster’s culture nied the gay rights activists’ allegatns that the ncert was liberately schled on the date to stop the pri ftival. Homophobia remas rampant South Korea, the world’s 10th-largt enomy.
(Vio: Ta Hsu)SEOUL — Thoands of revelers gathered Saturday for the South Korean pal’s Pri celebratn, wavg rabow banners and paradg through the streets spe the sultry monsoon heat, energized by the cy’s cisn to ny the event a perm for the e of a proment lively mood was stark ntrast to the relatively muted prence of nservative protters, who years past have surround the plaza near Cy Hall, stg a shadow over the Pri celebratns wh homophobic slogans blarg through loudspeakers. The Uned Stat, on the other hand, had a historic surge bills targetg transgenr socially nservative South Korea, homosexualy remas taboo, and same-sex unns are not legally regnized.
Seoul’s nservative mayor, Oh Se-hoon, has exprsed opposn to homosexualy, sayg he “nnot approve” of . ”Kwon BadaAt the end of 2021, when vid rtrictns were still stg a haze over Seoul’s nightlife, Kwon Bada opened what he scrib as a “straight-iendly gay bar.