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Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people North Korea have no legal protectns.

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

LGBT Rights North Korea: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay rights in north korea *

Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (ath penalty as punishment)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 (ath penalty as punishment).

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

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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. Gay North Korean fector speaks out.

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

VALERIA GURROLA WRITES -- Jang Yeong-j has found love as a gay man nearly twenty-five years after his pe om North Korea. He first ma ternatnal headl 2015 wh A Mark of Red Honor's release, his memoir about livg as an openly gay fector South Korea. In the memoir, Jang Yeong-j reunts the… * gay rights in north korea *

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.

In an tobgraphil novel and a recent terview, Jang Yeong-j scribed his experienc as a gay man growg up the totalarian untry. * gay rights in north korea *

“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. 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.

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