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Contents:

• 5 STYLISH KOREAN ACTORS AND THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY CHARACTERS THEY PLAYED ON K-DRAMAS
• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• GAY KOREAN CELEBRI – K-POP SGER FIRST TO E OUT AS GAY 20 YEARS
• KOREAN ACTOR'S REALY DRAMA: COMG OUT AS GAY
• THE KOREAN ACTORS ARE BREAKG DOWN BARRIERS FOR THE GAY COMMUNY IN KOREA
• GAY SOUTH KOREAN CELEBRY 'MARRI' PARTNER
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• LLIE CHNG: ASIA'S GAY IN LIV ON 15 YEARS AFTER HIS ATH

5 STYLISH KOREAN ACTORS AND THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY CHARACTERS THEY PLAYED ON K-DRAMAS

Holland is not the first known LGBT K-pop idol, but you n say that this new generatn of K-pop, he's one of the first idols who admted that he's gay.

He ially me out as gay 2015, and upon g Korea, his iends told him to keep his sexualy secret - but he's proud of his inty, makg him the first Korean artist who is openly gay. Former sger, performer, and actor, Lee Ho-dong or better known as Hoya was the first few actors who played a gay character across Korean televisn. Though his gay Korean iends told him would be better to stay the closet, he chose to e out as a way to be his te self.

IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY

“On the one hand looks like the dtry is very open md to shippg culture, ” she told CNN, referrg to the culture among fans of imagg relatnships between their favore stars – cludg gay relatnships. Acrdg to Kwon, fans were spired by “yaoi” – a kd of Japane manga that featur gay relatnships between male upl – and began makg up stori about their favore stars.

GAY KOREAN CELEBRI – K-POP SGER FIRST TO E OUT AS GAY 20 YEARS

Even now, K-pop labels sometim cultivate idols’ homoerotic appeal the hop that mak them more popular fanfictn, where Kwon timat 80% of stori volve gay story l. After Hong me out publicly as gay 2000, he was fired om his hostg job and lost other work – and thor Kwon believ that harsh rponse has disuraged others om followg su. In the absence of nfirmatn, mentators have ed small, clive clu to speculate on their stance, for example, the time the band’s lear RM tweeted Macklemore’s song “Same Love, ” which promot equal rights for gay people.

CNN attribut the difficulti LGBTQ+ Koreans face to the homophobia that is ‘still rife’ the untry, addg “major rerd labels are aaid to let stars be open about their sexualy for fear that they will hurt their reer.

1, 2003Around the rner om Gay Hill and Hooker Hill, among the serpente si streets the Itaewon district that visors roam wh tent, Hong S Chon was tryg very hard one recent night to relax si his bar, ''Our Place. His claratn troduced the ncept of g out to a society that until then did not even acknowledge the existence of homosexualy here and regard as a foreign Hong was dropped om his televisn rol. Here the pal, that still means two neighborhoods: Jungro, which attracts olr Korean men, most of whom are married and do not acknowledge they are gay, and Itaewon, where younger Korean and foreign men meet bars dottg Gay Hill, like Always Homme.

KOREAN ACTOR'S REALY DRAMA: COMG OUT AS GAY

''After Hong S Chon me out, a lot of ordary people have e out, '' said Ace, 25, the Korean manager of Always was only a ago that a gay rights movement was born South Korea, led by gay Korean-Amerins, gay activists here said.

They wore masks at public ralli or news nferenc, said Lim Tae Hoon, 27, an official wh the Gay and Lbian Human Rights Hong's g out spired others -- so much so that Mr.

The Dutch man eventually left his fay, and they spent time Amsterdam and then New York, ci wh open gay cultur that would eply fluence Mr. He had a steady part on this untry's most famo children's show, had also had a part a h edy lled, ''Three Men, Three Women, '' playg the part of an effemate, though not explicly gay, fashn signer named Poison. ' ''A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 3 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Korean Actor's Realy Drama: Comg Out as Gay.

THE KOREAN ACTORS ARE BREAKG DOWN BARRIERS FOR THE GAY COMMUNY IN KOREA

Korean media tends to shy away om the topic of homosexualy, and the ncept of an LGBTQ muny is que foreign, but the mil The Pri aims to change all that. The Pri, wrten by Alexi Kaye Campbell 2008, tails the story of two parallel love stori between two gay men, Philip and Oliver, 1958 and another gay uple wh the same nam 2008.

” — Director Kim Dong Yeon He further explaed that The Pri don’t aim only to portray the many stggl that gay people endure, but also to te the dience as to how to go about acceptg their differenc by listeng to their stori and growg wh them. Actor Hong S Chun In 2010, he me back wh a show lled “Comg Out” that aimed to help other gay men e out to their loved on. From then on, Korea’s stance on homosexualy has slowly been advancg to bee more acceptg, as more and more people are learng to bee more empathetic.

GAY SOUTH KOREAN CELEBRY 'MARRI' PARTNER

” He then also took to his Instagram wh the hashtags #Gay #TrotSger, wrg, “I was so surprised to fd a flood of news articl about me this morng.

Trot sger Kwon Do Woon out as gay on his 10th but anniversary, the first male celeb to e out 20-years— allkpop (@allkpop) October 6, 2020.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step. Bdette, who also intifi as gay and is a longstandg BL fan, said the genre will shake up nservative views on genr and sexualy South Korea.

“Whether you are a heterosexual woman tryg to ject your sexual tonomy to the world, or you are a gay man who wants to see posive reprentatns of male-male romance, BL n be ed, ” he said.

Kim Jho Gwang-Soo -- a proment gay rights mpaigner has "married" his partner South Korea, where same-sex marriage is not legally regnised. (AFP)SEOUL (AFP) – A proment gay rights mpaigner and movie director "married" his partner South Korea Saturday, where same-sex marriage is not legally Jho Gwang-Soo -- a rare openly gay celebry nservative South Korea -- and Kim Sng-Hwan held an outdoor ceremony central Seoul, urgg the ernment to regnise their unn.

LLIE CHNG: ASIA'S GAY IN LIV ON 15 YEARS AFTER HIS ATH

I hope South Korea will also jo them the near future", he sex marriage is illegal South Korea and much of the populatn owns upon homosexual before the ceremony between Kim, 48, and his partner, who is 19 years younger, a handful of Christians briefly occupied the se an attempt to stop the celebratn, engagg shovg match wh the uple's and his partner, a lleague at his entertament firm, wore black sus and bow ti.

Reprentatn K-dramas is startg to get a lot better, and the bt gay Korean dramas have some of the most heartwarmg storyl — here are the bt K-dramas wh LGBTQ+ reprentatn. In fact, there's now even several K-dramas dited to a gay love story that's changg the game and helpg the rise of the new "Boy’s Love (BL)" genre. While there's still a long way to go, there are a handful of gay Korean dramas that break the mold and feature LGBTQ+ characters.

The K-Drama Secret Garn is one of the first shows Korea to feature LGBTQ+ narrativ and remas one of the bt gay Korean dramas. The show also promently foc on the brother of one of the characters who is openly gay and is a lovg and stable relatnship. While not herently a gay Korean drama, Be Melodramatic is a show that will tug at the heartstrgs of viewers thanks to s three-dimensnal portrayal of s characters, as well as s relatable narrative.