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.
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
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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. 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.
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.
WHAT A GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT’S LOST DISCRIMATN CASE SAYS ABOUT LGBTQ RIGHTS CHA
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.
The strategi, succs, and great patience of the LGBTQ+ movement Japan offer a valuable glimpse to how queer activism n flourish the socially nservative and culturally homogeneo societi of East Asia. The ath of a gay graduate stunt 2015 was voked by mpaigners as evince of the urgent need for a zero-tolerance policy on harassment and hate speech. Fdal Japan had been tolerant of homosexualy, but the Meiji Rtoratn and post-World War II era saw the ascent of Christiany the untry, precipatg the outward nservatism that still pervas much of Japane society.
A 2013 poll found that jt 54% of the populatn agreed that homosexualy should be accepted society; 36% said that should not. Through workg wh church, paralegal groups, and muny associatns, activists have sought to dispel popular narrativ and trop ncerng gay and lbian dividuals, explicly vokg the centraly of marriage to a stable fay stcture as grounds for marriage equaly. Read more: Homophobia Is Not an Asian Value East Asia remas a regn where social tradn and sexual progrsivism often fd themselv at loggerheads.