5 Stylish Korean Actors And The Controversial Gay Characters They Played On K-Dramas |

Contents:

• 24 FAVORE JAPANE ACTORS IN BL/GAY ROL TH 2 DES (CIR 2000-2022) PART 1/3 [HLIST]
• 5 STYLISH KOREAN ACTORS AND THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY CHARACTERS THEY PLAYED ON K-DRAMAS
• YUJI MSUYA, A WELL-KNOWN VOICE ACTOR JAPAN, ME OUT AS GAY.
• GAY M/M JAPAN - (MOVI & DRAMAS)
• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• JAPAN'S LATT CELEBRY CHEF IS A GAY LAWYER H TV DRAMA
• MEET THE MR GAY JAPAN 2019 FALISTS

24 FAVORE JAPANE ACTORS IN BL/GAY ROL TH 2 DES (CIR 2000-2022) PART 1/3 [HLIST]

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

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

“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.

YUJI MSUYA, A WELL-KNOWN VOICE ACTOR JAPAN, ME OUT AS GAY.

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

GAY M/M JAPAN - (MOVI & DRAMAS)

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

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

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

JAPAN'S LATT CELEBRY CHEF IS A GAY LAWYER H TV DRAMA

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

MEET THE MR GAY JAPAN 2019 FALISTS

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.