LGBT Rights North Korea: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
Contents:
- ‘I ULD NOT EVEN DREAM’: WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY NORTH KOREA
- NORTH KOREA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR: ''S A WEIRD LIFE'
- PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?
- GAY AND TRANS SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE ABED SOUTH KOREAN ARY
‘I ULD NOT EVEN DREAM’: WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY NORTH KOREA
Gay North Korean fector speaks out. He was driven to leave the North by the difficulti of livg there as a gay man. Jang did not hear the word “homosexual” for the first 37 years of his life, sayg he had no ncept of what meant, somethg not unual his native North Korea.
Readg a magaze a doctor’s surgery 1998, not long after he arrived South Korea, Jang saw an article about homosexualy.
NORTH KOREA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR: ''S A WEIRD LIFE'
“That was the first time I knew what homosexualy was and I was really pleased, ” he says.
He has few iends and beg the only out gay fector the South has ma settlg twice as hard.
HistoryHomosexual activy North Korea? Homosexual activy North Korea is legal. [3]Ambiguo homosexualy North Korea is ambigo Legal There is no law North Korea prohibg homosexualy, and North Korea wants everyone to have the same rights (fay, marriage)AmbiguoL’homosexualé en Corée du Nord t ambigu Same-sex marriage North Korea?
PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?
N/A No rmatn on same-sex marriage North KoreaUnregnizedDepictn media of affectn North Korea tend to be very rare, and no law agast gay marriage exists the nstutn. But, based on a North Korean propaganda film om the year 2000, male homosexualy may be agast the law the ary, cludg for prisoners of war.
GAY AND TRANS SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE ABED SOUTH KOREAN ARY
By North Korean standards Jang Yeong-j had a normal start life: he joed the ary at 19, pleted 10 years of natnal service and married soon trapped his untry, which he has lled “one huge prison whout bars”, problems wh his marriage led him to fect to South was only when he crossed the borr and spent time a more open society did bee clear to him that he was homosexual, somethg he had never prevly had a name for. The 55-year-old is now the only openly gay North Korean fector livg the South. “I didn’t know until after I arrived here that I was a gay, or even what homosexualy was.