Thoands of LGBTQ supporters gather at Seoul Cy Hall Plaza for the Seoul Queer Culture Ftival for the first time three years bee of the COVID-19 panmic. Outsi of the police-barrid plaza, a unter-prott agast gay rights go ahead. The police barris were put up to separate the two large groups and prevent any clash.
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- GAY PRI IN KOREA FAC CHRISTIAN WRATH AS SEEN AT RALLY IN SEOUL
- FIRST POST-COVID SEOUL PRI IS MET WH ANTI-GAY PROTTERS
GAY PRI IN KOREA FAC CHRISTIAN WRATH AS SEEN AT RALLY IN SEOUL
Thoands of gay rights supporters are celebratg unr heavy police guard the South Korean pal's first major Pri para three years after a COVID-19 hiat. * seoul gay pride protest *
Hong, the Daegu mayor, has prevly ma headl for anti-LGBTQ statements, such as claimg that gay men would weaken the South Korean ary, acrdg to lol media. Homophobia is rife South Korea, where there is no prehensive anti-discrimatn laws to protect LGBTQ people.
FIRST POST-COVID SEOUL PRI IS MET WH ANTI-GAY PROTTERS
Gay pri faced Christian outrage central Seoul a showdown that dramatized the nflict between Korea's eply nservative valu and the untry's latter-day surge toward mocratic equaly. Advot and fo of gay rights clashed after a gay pri rally on the grassy plaza ont of Seoul Cy Hall that [...] * seoul gay pride protest *
South Korea do not legally regnize same-sex marriage, and is ls acceptg of gay upl pared to nearby mocraci like Japan and Taiwan.
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. “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.