North Korea's only openly gay fector: ''s a weird life' | North Korea | The Guardian

Contents:

• NORTH KOREA’S ‘ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR’ FDS LOVE
• ‘I ULD NOT EVEN DREAM’: WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY NORTH KOREA
• S​OUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ​ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX
• NORTH KOREA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR: ''S A WEIRD LIFE'

NORTH KOREA’S ‘ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR’ FDS LOVE

Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (other penalty)Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✖ Other punishmentNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectns. HistoryHomosexual activy North Korea? Homosexual activy North Korea is illegal (other penalty).

Unregnized Depictn media of affectn North Korea tend to be very rare, and no law agast gay marriage exists the legalArticle 193 outlaws the creatn, distributn or posssn of "nt" culture. But, based on a North Korean propaganda film om the year 2000, male homosexualy may be agast the law the ary, cludg for prisoners of war. The untry is racially and ethnilly homogeno.

Acrdg to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) rights group Equalx, no legal mechanisms exist for LGBTI dividuals to protect agast discrimatn hog and employment. Equalx characterized legal protectns toward same-sex sexual activy, the right to change legal genr, and gay and lbian persons servg openly the ary as ambiguo.

‘I ULD NOT EVEN DREAM’: WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY NORTH KOREA

Image source, Oh HwanJang Yeong-j's remarkable story as North Korea's only openly gay fector was vered by the ternatnal media after he published his tobgraphy. Medil tts "There is no ncept of homosexualy North Korea, " he says. Park Jeong-Won, a law profsor at Seoul's Kookm Universy, says that he is not aware of any explic North Korean law agast gay and lbian relatnships.

But he adds that the state's laws agast extramaral relatns and breachg social mor would probably be -opted to prosecutg any gay sexual act. "When I asked them about homosexualy, they didn't tch on quickly so I had to expla to every sgle person, " Kim, profsor of North Korean Studi at Ewha Women's Universy, says. He turned the page to disver an article about gay men g out, wh a scene om an Amerin film showg two men kissg source, Chosun-ilboImage ptn, Jang's risky fectn route ma headl the SouthFally dawned on Jang that he, too, was gay.

S​OUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ​ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX

"The revelatn transformed Jang's life, and he beme a regular at Seoul's gay bars. "I heard that there are many gay bars there.

The Supreme Court livered a huge w for LGBTQ rights by lg that feral civil rights law protects gay, lbian and transgenr workers. The opn, wrten by Jtice Neil Gorsuch, argu, “An employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex. Gay North Korean fector speaks out.

He was driven to leave the North by the difficulti of livg there as a gay man. Jang did not hear the word “homosexual” for the first 37 years of his life, sayg he had no ncept of what meant, somethg not unual his native North Korea. Readg a magaze a doctor’s surgery 1998, not long after he arrived South Korea, Jang saw an article about homosexualy.

NORTH KOREA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR: ''S A WEIRD LIFE'

“That was the first time I knew what homosexualy was and I was really pleased, ” he says. He has few iends and beg the only out gay fector the South has ma settlg twice as hard.

LGBT rights North Korea From Wikipedia, the ee encyclopedia Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people North Korea have no legal protectns.