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Contents:
- 10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA
- HAPPY ALONE? SAD YOUNG MEN EAST ASIAN GAY CEMA
- 'THIS IS HISTORIC': MALAYSIAN MAN WS APPEAL AGAST ISLAMIC GAY SEX CHARGE
10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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Recent stanc of censorship suggt Cha’s LGBTQ muny will face more explic official homophobia the future. A recent directive to broadsters banned pictns of “sissy” men, soon after a polemic state-n media nounced effemate men as a sign of rpt Wtern fluence the entertament LGBTQ activists and homophobic bloggers view creased censorship as a sign the polil wds are shiftg to an actively anti-LGBTQ policy, triggerg more utn among activists and more aggrsive harassment om their opponents. While Cha’s LGBTQ muny remas active and rilient, s already limed opportuni to create social and polil change have been sharply Korea: Harnsg Onle ActivismSouth Korea’s LGBTQ muny has faced heightened homophobia amid the panmic.
HAPPY ALONE? SAD YOUNG MEN EAST ASIAN GAY CEMA
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In May 2020, the ernment’s ntact tracg app texted the public that a COVID-19 patient had vised a gay club Itaewon. Asi om the privacy ncerns stemmg om the inty disclosure, the cint released a wave of homophobic sentiment. South Korean media foced on the patient’s sexual orientatn, fuelg public stigma agast the LGBTQ muny as “disease-spreadg gays.
'THIS IS HISTORIC': MALAYSIAN MAN WS APPEAL AGAST ISLAMIC GAY SEX CHARGE
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A Korean LGBTQ activist group publicly nounced homophobic ments on LGBTQ people a statement sayg, “[A] person’s disease do not jtify hatred and discrimatn agast one’s sexual orientatn. Sce nservative policians mostly secure vot om church-based muni, they are prsured to nform to tradnalist Christians’ re polil beliefs, cludg opposg pro-LGBTQ bills to halt “the spread” of homosexualy.
In July, Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je me unr fire for llg “gay groups” a “problem” COVID-19 preventn efforts, whout offerg evince or explanatn.
His ments served to perpetuate stigmatizatn of the LGBTQ muny and historil prejudice seeg gay people as “diseased. But sce Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP took on the mantle of champns for same-sex marriage, LGBTQ rights has trend toward beg a partisan polil issue, wh nservative pro-KMT and often relig elements spreadg homophobic disrmatn durg electns 2018 and 2020.