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Contents:
- HAPPY ALONE? SAD YOUNG MEN EAST ASIAN GAY CEMA
- WHAT A GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT’S LOST DISCRIMATN CASE SAYS ABOUT LGBTQ RIGHTS CHA
HAPPY ALONE? SAD YOUNG MEN EAST ASIAN GAY CEMA
Social media, K-pop and gay characters on Netflix – all have played a part brgg LGBT issu to the mastream. But greater visibily has brought a backlash too. * east asia gay *
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.
WHAT A GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT’S LOST DISCRIMATN CASE SAYS ABOUT LGBTQ RIGHTS CHA
In May 2020, the ernment’s ntact tracg app texted the public that a COVID-19 patient had vised a gay club Itaewon. South Korean media foced on the patient’s sexual orientatn, fuelg public stigma agast the LGBTQ muny as “disease-spreadg gays. 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.