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• GAY KOREAN CELEBRI – K-POP SGER FIRST TO E OUT AS GAY 20 YEARS
• KOREAN SGER KWON DO WOON COM OUT AS GAY
• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• 5 STYLISH KOREAN ACTORS AND THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY CHARACTERS THEY PLAYED ON K-DRAMAS
• TROT SGER KWON DO WOON COM OUT AS GAY, SHAR THANKS FOR SUPPORTMICOCT 6, 2020BY J. KTROT SGER KWON DO WOON HAS E OUT AS GAY AND SHARED HIS PLANS TO RELEASE MIC ABOUT A GAY RELATNSHIP! ON OCTOBER 6, THE SGER SHARED THROUGH HIS AGENCY THAT HE HAD CID TO E OUT AS GAY. “I WANTED TO SPEAK FOR THE RIGHTS OF SEXUAL MORI AND OPEN THE DOOR FOR OTHERS THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY TO E OUT,” HE SAID. IT’S REPORTED THAT HE IS THE FIRST KOREAN TROT SGER TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY. TROT IS A GENRE OF KOREAN POP MIC KNOWN FOR S DISTCTIVE SGG STYLE. KWON DO WOON IS A TROT SGER-SONGWRER WHO ENTERED THE DTRY 2009 WHEN HE WON THE GRAND PRIZE AND BT LYRICIST AND BT COMPOSER AWARDS AT THE TBS COLLEGE TROT SONG FTIVAL. AT THE TIME, HE WAS STUDYG JOURNALISM AT SOGANG UNIVERSY. HE WENT ON TO BUT 2010 THROUGH HIS FIRST ALBUM “ONE MORE GLASS, IT’S MY STYLE” (LERAL TLE), WHICH WAS RELEASED UNR HIS REAL NAME KWON HY M. IN 2011, HE PROMOTED THE DANCE TROT SONG “TONIGHT” UNR THE STAGE NAME KWONST. HE RECENTLY RELEASED A REMAKE OF SGER JANG YOON JUNG’S LAT DANCE TROT SONG “CASANOVA,” AND THIS YEAR IS HIS 10TH BUT ANNIVERSARY. KWON DO WOON SAID TO OTHER LGBT PEOPLE WHO ARE DREAMG OF BEG SGERS, “I WANT TO BEE SOMEONE THAT YOU N FEEL A SENSE OF KSHIP WH AND GIVE YOU STRENGTH.” ON OCTOBER 6, KWON DO WOON POSTED ON INSTAGRAM TO SHARE AN ARTICLE ABOUT HIS G OUT AND HE WROTE, “I’VE BEEN VERY SURPRISED TO SEE ALL THE ARTICL SCE THIS MORNG. I’LL WORK HARR. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.” IN A PHONE LL WH THE OUTLET NEWSEN, KWON DO WOON WAS ASKED IF HE HAD EXPECTED TO RECEIVE SUCH SUPPORT OM THE PUBLIC. “I DIDN’T EXPECT AT ALL,” HE SAID. “I’M SO GRATEFUL AND HAPPY, AND ’S AN HONOR.” KWON DO WOON SHARED THAT HE’S RECEIVG STG OFFERS OM MANY TELEVISN SHOWS, AND HE SAID HE’D PARTICULARLY LIKE TO GO ON MBC’S “OMNISCIENT INTERFERG VIEW” TO SHOW HIMSELF AND HIS MANAGER. THE SGER SAID THAT HE’LL BE RELEASG A NEW FULL ALBUM ON OCTOBER 30. “IT’S MY EIGHTH ALBUM, AND THE TLE TRACK IS A GAY TROT REMAKE OF CHAE YEON’S ‘TWO OF US.'” HE EXPLAED, “IT’S A DANCE TROT SONG ABOUT A MAN SCG A MAN. IT WILL BE SOMETHG NEW AND H.” SOURCE (1) (2) (3) REMEND WATCH:
• K-POP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SGER PREPAR TO MAKE HIS DEBUT

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

Maman Maman, who origally buted 2007 unr the stage name Magoply, is K-Pop first openly gay idol.

Shortly after butg, Maman me out as gay an terview.

KOREAN SGER KWON DO WOON COM OUT AS GAY

Holland Holland is well-known as the media’s first openly gay K-Pop idol.

He has been openly gay sce 2015 and buted 2018. 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. 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.

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

However, durg an terview, she nfsed she is gay, g her to be kicked out om her agency. Holland, also known as Go Tae-seob, is K-pop's first openly gay idol. K-pop’s LGBT star Holland: 10 facts about South Korea’s first openly gay idol, born Go Tae-seob – om Neverland’s R-rated mic vio to what his parents really thk.

He stans BTS and One Directn’s Harry Styl, wants to work wh Sia, and ma iends wh Red Velvet’s Yeri after they -starred a Burberry mpaign – but Holland said no to entertament agenci and ma his but penntly Published: 10:00am, 16 Oct, 2020 Updated: 10:00am, 16 Oct, 2020 Holland, also known as Go Tae-seob, is K-pop's first openly gay idol.

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

Origatg 1960s Japan, where  was known as “yaoi, ” BL typilly picts two men a homoerotic relatnship.

TROT SGER KWON DO WOON COM OUT AS GAY, SHAR THANKS FOR SUPPORTMICOCT 6, 2020BY J. KTROT SGER KWON DO WOON HAS E OUT AS GAY AND SHARED HIS PLANS TO RELEASE MIC ABOUT A GAY RELATNSHIP! ON OCTOBER 6, THE SGER SHARED THROUGH HIS AGENCY THAT HE HAD CID TO E OUT AS GAY. “I WANTED TO SPEAK FOR THE RIGHTS OF SEXUAL MORI AND OPEN THE DOOR FOR OTHERS THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY TO E OUT,” HE SAID. IT’S REPORTED THAT HE IS THE FIRST KOREAN TROT SGER TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY. TROT IS A GENRE OF KOREAN POP MIC KNOWN FOR S DISTCTIVE SGG STYLE. KWON DO WOON IS A TROT SGER-SONGWRER WHO ENTERED THE DTRY 2009 WHEN HE WON THE GRAND PRIZE AND BT LYRICIST AND BT COMPOSER AWARDS AT THE TBS COLLEGE TROT SONG FTIVAL. AT THE TIME, HE WAS STUDYG JOURNALISM AT SOGANG UNIVERSY. HE WENT ON TO BUT 2010 THROUGH HIS FIRST ALBUM “ONE MORE GLASS, IT’S MY STYLE” (LERAL TLE), WHICH WAS RELEASED UNR HIS REAL NAME KWON HY M. IN 2011, HE PROMOTED THE DANCE TROT SONG “TONIGHT” UNR THE STAGE NAME KWONST. HE RECENTLY RELEASED A REMAKE OF SGER JANG YOON JUNG’S LAT DANCE TROT SONG “CASANOVA,” AND THIS YEAR IS HIS 10TH BUT ANNIVERSARY. KWON DO WOON SAID TO OTHER LGBT PEOPLE WHO ARE DREAMG OF BEG SGERS, “I WANT TO BEE SOMEONE THAT YOU N FEEL A SENSE OF KSHIP WH AND GIVE YOU STRENGTH.” ON OCTOBER 6, KWON DO WOON POSTED ON INSTAGRAM TO SHARE AN ARTICLE ABOUT HIS G OUT AND HE WROTE, “I’VE BEEN VERY SURPRISED TO SEE ALL THE ARTICL SCE THIS MORNG. I’LL WORK HARR. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.” IN A PHONE LL WH THE OUTLET NEWSEN, KWON DO WOON WAS ASKED IF HE HAD EXPECTED TO RECEIVE SUCH SUPPORT OM THE PUBLIC. “I DIDN’T EXPECT AT ALL,” HE SAID. “I’M SO GRATEFUL AND HAPPY, AND ’S AN HONOR.” KWON DO WOON SHARED THAT HE’S RECEIVG STG OFFERS OM MANY TELEVISN SHOWS, AND HE SAID HE’D PARTICULARLY LIKE TO GO ON MBC’S “OMNISCIENT INTERFERG VIEW” TO SHOW HIMSELF AND HIS MANAGER. THE SGER SAID THAT HE’LL BE RELEASG A NEW FULL ALBUM ON OCTOBER 30. “IT’S MY EIGHTH ALBUM, AND THE TLE TRACK IS A GAY TROT REMAKE OF CHAE YEON’S ‘TWO OF US.'” HE EXPLAED, “IT’S A DANCE TROT SONG ABOUT A MAN SCG A MAN. IT WILL BE SOMETHG NEW AND H.” SOURCE (1) (2) (3) REMEND WATCH:

Some LGBTQ activists have acced BL stori of fetishizg and appropriatg gay culture. 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. HOLLAND’s “Neverland” This was the but song of the first openly gay K-Pop idol – a te in. BESTIE’s “Exce Me” At one pot the vio, a girl asks a guy for his number – but he turns out to be gay.

K-POP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SGER PREPAR TO MAKE HIS DEBUT

Nell’s “The Day Before” This song addrs the heavy relatn between homosexualy and suici. Wh the first openly gay idols like Holland to MRSHLL, more stars are fally challengg the nservative K-pop scene by publicly embracg their te inti and steppg up as LGBT role mols Published: 9:00am, 6 Jul, 2020 Updated: 9:00am, 6 Jul, 2020 Ren, G-Dragon and Holland are three K-pop stars willg to let their te lours she. " In particular, "LGBT" is an acronym for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr.

Gay is jt gay.

South Korean sger Kwon Do Woon has e out as gay, makg him the first male Korean celebry to do so 20 years.