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.
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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
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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.
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. Homophobia remas rampant South Korea, the world’s 10th-largt enomy.
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 *
The foundatn is lked wh the Christian broadster CTS, which has volly opposed homosexualy and the pri ftival, acrdg to Rters.
The anisatn hostg the ncert, the Christian CTS Cultural Foundatn, is lked to the CTS broadstg system, which has ma anti-gay remarks on-air. The stggle to get the event off the ground highlights the hurdl faced by the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (LGBTQ) muny South Korea, a socially nservative untry where Christian groups exert a powerful fluence polics. Some members of the untry’s nservative learship, backed by relig groups, have recently fanned homophobic sentiment.