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- GAY AND TRANS SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE ABED SOUTH KOREAN ARY
- GOFUNDME CREATED FOR GAY ASIAN MAN A AFTER BEG BTALLY ASSLTED ATLANTA
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- IN SOUTH KOREA, GAY SOLDIERS CAN SERVE. BUT THEY MIGHT BE PROSECUTED.
GAY AND TRANS SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE ABED SOUTH KOREAN ARY
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Ex-South Korean soldier says he was abed for beg gay. The South Korean soldier had seen another low-rankg nscript, emed effemate and spected of beg gay, beg sexually abed, beaten and forced to drk om a toilet bowl by other soldiers. In a statement to CNN, South Korea’s Defense Mistry said had polici place “to protect homosexual soldiers’ human rights and to guarantee an environment which they may serve the ary equally wh other soldiers, ” and provid specialist unselors for victims of sexual vlence and human rights ab.
GOFUNDME CREATED FOR GAY ASIAN MAN A AFTER BEG BTALLY ASSLTED ATLANTA
Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg. * gay asian abused *
Dpe a ary directive passed 2009 llg for greater protectns for gay soldiers, LGBT nscripts still face spicn, harassment and prosecutn unr Article 92-6 of the Milary Crimal Act, which mak sexual activy between men punishable by up to two years prison. Gay sex is illegal the ary whether happens on or off base, and regardls of whether one party is not an enlisted soldier. In 2017, dozens of men were arrted what was scribed as a “gay wch-hunt, ” wh superrs g gay datg apps and spectns of soldiers’ phon and social media to track down LGBT nscripts.
Paranoia about beg outed as gay also creat a discentive for soldiers to report abe if they believe is bee of their sexual orientatn. Jeram and other gay soldiers who spoke to the human rights group did not give a surname for fear of repercsns. Kim was harassed by fellow soldiers who spected he was gay.
“Bee if I didn’t, they were gog to ll my parents and tell them that I was gay. But all the thgs had changed jt bee I’m gay.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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” Chong is based Sgapore, one of four Southeast Asian natns where is illegal to be gay. Homosexualy is crimalized Sgapore, as is three other untri Southeast Rahman/Getty ImagSayoni has been documentg s of abe and discrimatn agast Sgapore's LGBT muny over the last few years. At the time of wrg, homosexualy remas crimalized Bnei, which abis by strict Sharia law, and untri like Sgapore, Malaysia and Myanmar ntue to adhere to an antiquated lonial-era law that bans same-sex terurse.
When enforced, the punishment for beg gay the untri n be severe, cludg: beg stoned to ath, whipped, or thrown prison. And last Augt, a member of parliament Myanmar said the ernment was “nstantly takg actn” to have “the gays” taed by police. 7 ln and is the only provce Indonia where homosexualy is illegal.
Earlier this year, the puty mayor of Banda Aceh, the provce’s pal, labeled homosexualy “a social disease that should be eradited.
IN SOUTH KOREA, GAY SOLDIERS CAN SERVE. BUT THEY MIGHT BE PROSECUTED.
“I gus my ‘gaydar’ went off, ” Chee rells. “If gay marriage was legal here, we would get married a heartbeat, ” Lim says.
Chee, by his si, nods gay marriage is not legal Sgapore.