13 Portras of Gay Men In Seoul, South Korea

Contents:

• WHAT DO THE KORAN SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
• KOREAN BL - BL/GAY DRAMAS AND MOVI OM SOUTH KOREA
• THE BT TOP 10 KOREAN GAY ONLYFANS OF 2023
• GAY SEOUL
• GAY FILM KOREA
• HOMOSEXUALITY IN KOREA: KOREAN CELEBRI, GAY IDOLS AND MORE
• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY KOREAN

WHAT DO THE KORAN SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?

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Across the Arab world, gays have been arrted and sentenced to prison on charg lked to "bchery" - and faced floggg or even the ath penalty Iran and Sdi Arabia. In Egypt, there have been police raids of spected gay gathergs and people have been put on trial g a vague legal text that equat homosexualy wh prostut and tri gays for "vlatg public moraly.

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" "Middle Eastern and North Ain untri have nounced the Orlando shootg when at the same time they crimalize homosexualy wh sentenc rangg om years prison to the ath penalty, " said Ahmed Benchemsi, munitns and advocy director for the Middle East and North Ai at Human Rights Watch. In Syria, al-Qaida's lol branch as well as other Islamic surgent groups battlg ISIS, have also killed gays and some homosexuals have had to flee the untry for their own safety.

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Like other forms of sex, homosexualy would only be bad when to abe, excs or vlatn of public morn gay and lbian Mlim activists disagree wh this terpretatn, argug that the people of Lot were stroyed not bee of participatn same-sex acts, but bee of miseds which clud refg to worship one God, disregardg the thory of the Prophets, and attemptg to rape the travelers, a crime ma even worse by the fact that the travelers were unr Lot's protectn and hospaly (for example: Kuggle, Stt, and Stephen Hunt.

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In the wake of the mass shootg at Pulse nightclub Orlando, Florida, that took the liv of 49 people, there has been much speculatn around gunman Omar Mateen's motiv for the ratnale for the crime, first nsired to be a straight man's act of homophobic vlence, beme self-loathg when me to light that for years Mateen had rrpond on gay datg apps and was a regular patron of the very club on which he mounted his murro each se, Mateen's relign of Islam was isolated as the unrlyg e of vlence. I have been soliced untls tim to "expla" Mlims' alleged homophobia, before but pecially after the Orlando tragedy, and each time I have wonred why this homophobia is taken as a is Islam's stance on homosexualy?

This qutn is highly vexed and impossible to answer, as there are not one but many stanc, not one but many Islamic schools of thought, and scholars have rightly offered much-need cricism of the ia that there is one monolhic body lled Islam that n be nsistent over time and space, let alone have equally thorny and tertg qutn regards what we mean by "homosexualy. The word homosexual do not appear anywhere the Koran, and ed uldn't, bee the word is an ventn of the late 19th century, when medil societi Europe tried to place groups of people who took part siar sex acts unr a mon tegory, which they then labeled "homosexualy.

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As scholar Khaled el-Rouayheb explas his historil survey of same-sex sire the Islamic world om 1500 to 1800, sexual inty tegori we e today have not been relevant Islamic human subjects he studi may have engaged (p amounts) of same-sex acts whout ever speakg of what they were dog terms of inty, or velopg muni of like-md dividuals around the this unrstandg, el-Rouayheb tled his study "Before Homosexualy the Arab-Mlim World" (emphasis me) a move that may have seemed to be erasg homosexualy om the historil rerd but was really jt affirmg that this morn term uld not scribe the same-sex eroticism of this Islamic recently as last year, durg a Brish televised bate on the subject of whether one uld be both Mlim and gay, some Mlim guts claimed that this was a moot qutn bee "Islam" do not ask Mlims to nform to a particular sexual orientatn (another morn ncept).

Intertgly for this topic, the cleart and most explic nmnatns and punishments of homosexualy exist the ahadh, and is th no wonr that many Mlims who intify as LGBT take the Quranist posn and reject Mlims reject the rejectn of ahadh and acce LGBT Mlims of pickg and choosg what they want to follow. But the realy is that many LGBT imams have strong semantic and textual arguments that provi at the very least grounds for imams unrle the importance of another Islamic rnerstone—terpretatn (ijtihad)—potg to the fact that Mlims, throughout their history, have lived or at the tersectn wh non-Mlim societi, and have had to adapt their beliefs and practic to foreign rtrictns, novel circumstanc and sist that one has to view homosexual inty (which is not the same thg as homosexual activy) as one such novel circumstance not erned by the Koran.

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Mlims who are queer have often turned to one another, or ntral amic scholars, for edifyg arguments and terpretatns that uld help secure their place the muny of believers, when lol imams were yet the perceptn of Islamic homophobia persists.

Mlims' acceptance of homosexualy is creasg (perhaps slower than some of would like), pecially among the young, wh tolerance levels parable to other monotheistic relig mt remember that many Mlims the Diaspora are immigrants or scend om them.

The experience of beg cut off om a home culture n strengthen attachments to relig inty markers, sometim wh the misguid rult of entrenchg homophobic beliefs, even if they are sometim erroneoly formed, as I've tried to perceptn that Mlims are homophobic has far-reachg nsequenc, already evint the way polil ntenrs have ma promis to halt Mlim immigratn or redouble their efforts to bomb ISIS the wake of the Orlando a rearcher of immigratn bat Europe and how gay-iendls is policized wh them, I am eply aware of the way that perceptns of Islamic homophobia have been ed to argue agast engagement wh Mlims, replacg outright racism agast Mlims wh a sophistited form of sexual monizatn targetg the Islamic fah. Immediately after the mass shootg Orlando, media outlets ma sure to mentn Omar Mateen's history of wife-beatg, macho bodybuildg and his father's anecdote about his revulsn at men kissg the same breath as Mateen's Islamic allegatns of a generalized Mlim homophobia often nceal more than they reveal, terms of historil the earlit ntact pots between the Christian and Mlim civilizatns, Mlims were flted not so much for their sexual tolerance as they were for their sexual permissivens. Orientalism and lonialism both prented Mlims as perverts, prone to bisexualy, and were thought to have untamable sex tourism the permissive "lands of Islam" was born of this fantasy, and was practiced by a whole generatn of the Euro-Amerin gay telligentsia, remnants of which ntue North Ai today.

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Them" arguments about Wtern fluence the Middle East to a "sexual clash of civilizatns, " to borrow an unfortunate crics, like Joseph Massad, have argued that the laws and iologi rtrictg sexual eedom the Arab world are often the rult of nserved lonial-era laws, or emerged om a plex evolutn which saw Arab societi (that had prevly been judged as "perverse" Wtern ey) attempt to erase same-sex sire om Arabic herage, a procs which often happened ele is tellg, as a wily shared article has shown, that the five Islamic untri wh no anti-homosexual laws on the books were those never lonized by the Brish. Article 534 Lebanon, which crimaliz "sexual terurse ntrary to nature, " was rived om the French lonial Mandate the Mlim Diaspora the Wt, many dividuals have chosen to keep their sexual liv separate om their relig liv, as Mateen (who ed gay datg apps) had his "secret" gay life was revealed, the narrative about his motiv swched to self-hate, wh many social media clarg that the "closet, " which ntaed so many of not that long ago, was the problem, and that leadg a double life would eventually lead to schizophrenia, and possibly a vlent should be reful not to pathologize the closet this way, bee many people, not jt Mlims, choose to keep their private liv private for valid reasons that have nothg to do wh self-hate, and more to do wh refg the imperative of "outns" and mandatory sexual a velopg story, the ratnale behd Mateen's horrible crime seems to shift every time a new character tra is found out that he was born New York and idolized the New York Police Department, was a silent type who ed to se a lot, worked for an ternatnal secury firm that traed him the e of weapons, ma racist ments, abed his ex-wife who thought he was bipolar, was emed mentally unstable by -workers, had anger management issu, was a iend to a drag queen and equented gay clubs, drank heavily and ed steroids and was also, if any, of the elements bt "explas" his fatal act?

He ially me out as gay 2015, and upon g Korea, his iends told him to keep his sexualy secret - but he's proud of his inty, makg him the first Korean artist who is openly gay. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.

Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.

HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY KOREAN

” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.

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