Youngshik D. Bong, The Gay Rights Movement Democratizg Korea, Korean Studi, Vol. 32 (2008), pp. 86-103
Contents:
- SOUTH KOREA’S GAY UPL FIGHT FOR REGNN, ONE LAW AT A TIME
- SOUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX
SOUTH KOREA’S GAY UPL FIGHT FOR REGNN, ONE LAW AT A TIME
Author and pastor John Amanchwu spoke agast a liberal iology that giv "moral equivalency between blacks and gay rights." * korea gay rights *
” One petn sent to the Mistry of Jtice prophied, whout any evince, that “homosexuals will try to sce everyone” if the bill were to bee law. ” In May, a top adviser to Print Yoon said “homosexualy n be treated, ” like a smokg hab (he later rigned).
Prottant Pastor Yonah Lee, a stnch supporter of Yoon’s polici, is often lled this untry’s facto “ex-gay” spokperson. ” Pastor Yonah Lee, center, leads an "ex-gay" march LifePastor Lee acknowledged that discrimatn agast LGBTQ dividuals is “wrong, ” but he argued that the Bible “nmns homosexualy” and baselsly claimed that an anti-discrimatn law that explicly protects LGBTQ people would “force church to close. The board rejected the curriculum that clud ntent about Harvey Milk, an acced pedophile and gay activist, later the eveng.
Amanchwu, who is a ntributor to Turng Pot USA Fah and nsired “a risg voice exposg the racist iologi of abortn and cril race theory, ” told the Washgton Tim that his list was rponse to a liberal iology that giv “moral equivalency between blacks and gay rights. Advot of the curriculum and the gay agenda are “tryg to say that the same stggle is tantamount to what the LGBTQ muny is gog through today as relat to discrimatn, ” Mr.
SOUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX
” But neher of their same-sex unns is legally regnized South this socially nservative society where homosexualy remas a taboo, the upl are part of a vanguard nontg rampant discrimatn agast the LGBTQ muny.
”For a uple navigatg the narrow boundari of South Korean law, a recent judicial cisn — brought about by So and Kim — is a source of Seoul High Court Febary orred the Natnal Health Insurance Service to provi spoal verage to gay upl after So and Kim, both 32, sued the pair started llg each other “hband” after their weddg ceremony 2019, and Kim listed his “spoe” as his pennt on his health surance. Homophobia remas rampant South Korea, the world’s 10th-largt enomy, bee of entrenched genr norms and social nservatism, experts say.