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…
Contents:
- ‘I ULD NOT EVEN DREAM’: WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY NORTH KOREA
- NORTH KOREA’S ‘ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR’ FDS LOVE
- NORTH KOREA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR: ''S A WEIRD LIFE'
‘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 *
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NORTH KOREA’S ‘ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR’ FDS LOVE
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people North Korea have no legal protectns. * gay rights in north korea *
Homosexual activy North Korea is illegal (ath penalty as punishment). 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.
NORTH KOREA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR: ''S A WEIRD LIFE'
* gay rights in north korea *
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.
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. 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.