A watchdog group says South Korea's army is huntg down and prosecutg gay servicemen after a vio of male soldiers havg sex was posted onle.
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- IN SOUTH KOREA, GAY SOLDIERS CAN SERVE. BUT THEY MIGHT BE PROSECUTED.
- GAY AND TRANS SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE ABED SOUTH KOREAN ARY
- AFTER SEX VIO, SOUTH KOREA ACCED OF TARGETG GAY SOLDIERS
- SOUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX
- DOZENS ARRTED AS SOUTH KOREAN ARY NDUCTS ‘GAY WCH-HUNT’
IN SOUTH KOREA, GAY SOLDIERS CAN SERVE. BUT THEY MIGHT BE PROSECUTED.
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Then they seized the litenant’s smartphone, prsg him to intify gay soldiers his ntact lists.
GAY AND TRANS SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE ABED SOUTH KOREAN ARY
Kim is one of an creasg number of gay or transgenr soldiers who have been persecuted unr Article 92-6 of the Army Crimal Act, which has been ed to out them and punish them for nsensual sex, Amnty Internatnal said a report released on Article 92-6, “anal sex and other cent acts” between ary personnel n be punished by up to two years prison, even if they take place off base, while the soldiers are off duty and by mutual nsent. The group’s report, “Servg Silence, ” also tails sexual and other ab flicted on gay soldiers, or soldiers perceived as gay, by their superrs and their fellow soldiers. All able-bodied South Korean men are required to serve for about two ary says do not bar gay and transgenr people om servg, and the Defense Mistry has expand trag on protectg the rights of sexual mori.
AFTER SEX VIO, SOUTH KOREA ACCED OF TARGETG GAY SOLDIERS
Milary veterans have long reported discrimatn agast homosexuals the army, as well as more wispread ab like beatgs, hazg and bullyg.
Most gay soldiers have hidn their sexual orientatn for fear of beg outed and 2017, the year Mr.
Lim South Korea, which has been slow to embrace the rights of sexual mori, that 2017 crackdown triggered an unual gree of recent years, gay people have bee more visible the untry.
SOUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX
But nservative Christian groups have also lated monstratns agast homosexualy major ci, often llg gay soldiers a threat to ary groups helped to scuttle attempts Parliament to pass an anti-discrimatn law, urged on South Korea by the Uned Natns, that would give sexual mori the same protectns that other mory groups have.
DOZENS ARRTED AS SOUTH KOREAN ARY NDUCTS ‘GAY WCH-HUNT’
Amnty Internatnal’s report scrib vivid tail how antigay attus have translated to physil and sexual abe wh the former soldier told the rights group he had been forced to have oral and anal sex wh another gay soldier, as a superr tnted, “Don’t you want to have sex wh a womanlike man? After he nfid to an officer that he was gay and asked for help, his battaln manr outed him ont of his entire un, askg him, “Who did you sce last night? ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 9 of the New York edn wh the headle: Gay Soldiers Can Serve.