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Contents:

• BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021
• LLIE CHNG: ASIA'S GAY IN LIV ON 15 YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• GAY DATG HONG KONG
• GAY SOUTH KOREA: 'SHE SAID I DON'T NEED A SON LIKE YOU'
• NORTH KOREA, HONG KONG, GAY PRI: YOUR MONDAY BRIEFG
• GAY HONG KONG · CY GUI

BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021

A recent directive to broadsters banned pictns of “sissy” men, soon after a polemic state-n media nounced effemate men as a sign of rpt Wtern fluence the entertament LGBTQ activists and homophobic bloggers view creased censorship as a sign the polil wds are shiftg to an actively anti-LGBTQ policy, triggerg more utn among activists and more aggrsive harassment om their opponents. While Cha’s LGBTQ muny remas active and rilient, s already limed opportuni to create social and polil change have been sharply Korea: Harnsg Onle ActivismSouth Korea’s LGBTQ muny has faced heightened homophobia amid the panmic. South Korean media foced on the patient’s sexual orientatn, fuelg public stigma agast the LGBTQ muny as “disease-spreadg gays.

A Korean LGBTQ activist group publicly nounced homophobic ments on LGBTQ people a statement sayg, “[A] person’s disease do not jtify hatred and discrimatn agast one’s sexual orientatn. Sce nservative policians mostly secure vot om church-based muni, they are prsured to nform to tradnalist Christians’ re polil beliefs, cludg opposg pro-LGBTQ bills to halt “the spread” of homosexualy. In July, Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je me unr fire for llg “gay groups” a “problem” COVID-19 preventn efforts, whout offerg evince or explanatn.

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

But sce Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP took on the mantle of champns for same-sex marriage, LGBTQ rights has trend toward beg a partisan polil issue, wh nservative pro-KMT and often relig elements spreadg homophobic disrmatn durg electns 2018 and 2020.

However, I wonr how 'll turn out due to the Che media ban on LGBTQ is a reason for most Che BL/Gay themed stuff beg produced Taiwan... Image ptn, Llie Chng was one of the most popular male sgers and actors of the mid-1980sFor the past 15 years fans of tormented superstar Llie Chng, one of the first celebri to e out as gay Asia, have gathered at Hong Kong's Mandar Oriental Hotel to mourn the day he took his own life.

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

At that time, homosexualy was still viewed by many as an illns and abnormaly Hong Kong, pecially after the emergence of the first lol se of Aids 1984. "The LGBT movement Hong Kong took off the 1990s, when the muny fally beme visible to the public, " Travis Kong, an associate profsor of soclogy rearchg gay culture at The Universy of Hong Kong, told BBC Che.

He went on to star Happy Together directed by Wong Kar Wai - a gay cema classic about a uple who stggle to fd a peaceful -existence. Chng did not proclaim his sexualy as such, but nfsed his love for a source, Rock RerdsImage ptn, Chng wore his inic pair of red high heels a 1997 ncert"In the 1990s, at tim a gay man was still lled 'Aids man' and 'pervert', " says Mr Kong. “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.

GAY DATG HONG KONG

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.

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.

GAY SOUTH KOREA: 'SHE SAID I DON'T NEED A SON LIKE YOU'

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. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Christian anti-LGBT protters are makg their prence felt at gay events like here SeoulHe proudly showed me his T-shirt wh a special rabow logo on , one that lls for an anti-discrimatn law.

NORTH KOREA, HONG KONG, GAY PRI: YOUR MONDAY BRIEFG

Homosexualy may not be illegal South Korea - sce 2003 is no longer classified as "harmful and obscene" - but discrimatn remas wispread. Jt unr half of South Koreans don't want a gay iend, neighbour or lleague, acrdg to one natnwi survey by The Korea Social Integratn ptn, Why holidays n be tough for S Korea's LGBT munyThe proportn of gay and lbian teenagers who have been exposed to vlence is also high. He was alone a park late at night when he was approached by a man who told him homosexualy was an unfiveable s and he should return home to his parents, before beatg him wh a bamboo stick.

The Prottant Christian Communy is so ncerned that homosexualy will be accepted South Korea that has cid to hold s first "real love" event Ban - jt a month after the Queer Ftival anisers were forced to ncel their own event the cy. In a statement to the BBC, they said LGBTQ people were "uhil and abnormal" so their discrimatn was "the right kd of discrimatn" ptn, Menorah said she felt a rponsibily to stop LGBTQ people "om gog to hell"In September, this fluential church group turned up at the Queer Ftival Incheon, South Korea's send biggt cy, their waved paper fans which said NO to homosexualy and YES to "real love".

A huge screen was placed near the Queer Ftival square blastg a warng vio claimg that enuragg homosexualy would spread Aids and st tax payers lns. Meanwhile, Japan has elected s first openly gay lawmaker, and spe the current polil opposn, a survey found that 78% of people aged 20 to 60 favoured legalizg same-sex marriage. 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.

GAY HONG KONG · CY GUI

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. We have a vibrant gay scene and an admistratn that is, on balance, more openly tolerant of LGBT dividuals than many the regn. What do ‘Real Person Slash’ or RPS fan fictn – which picts K-pop idols like BTS gay relatnships – say about Korean society and the queer muny?

SEOUL — When send gentleman Doug Emhoff toured Seoul’s popular Gwangjang Market on Wednday, he was guid by one of South Korea’s most proment gay celebri. Hong Seok-cheon tght him the nam of var street foods and shared Korean pank paper cups — a classic technique for eatg moment highlightg South Korea’s diversy and culture me the same afternoon a top adviser to the new nservative print was the headl for mentg that “homosexualy n be treated” — like a smokg jarrg spl-screen moment unrsred the challeng South Korea for the LGBTQ muny, brgg genr issu to the foreont for the nascent admistratn of Yoon S-yeol and poundg fears among activists about the prospect of gay and women’s rights unr an admistratn that urted “anti-femist” voters as a mpaign many veloped natns grapple wh systemic discrimatn and genr imbalance the workplace, South Korea — one of the lowt-rankg veloped enomi for genr equaly — has a particularly long way to go. Homosexualy is still a taboo South Korea, though there has been some, whose English name is Tony, me out 2000 and remas one of the few openly gay celebri South Korea.

Rabow Actn, a aln of LGBTQ rights groups South Korea, lled on Yoon to answer for “homophobic ments” by his ai and take actns agast rampant homophobia the Wednday, Kim Seong-hoe, the printial secretary for relign and multiculturalism, ma headl for a Facebook post clarifyg his 2019 post that he believed homosexualy was a “type of mental illns. And there are people who have nate homosexual tennci, but many s, I thk people mistake their habs or tennci as their sexual stcts, ” he wrote. “That’s why wh the platform that I have, I have and I will ntue to strike that msage that men need to step up and not jt say they’re beg helpful and not jt thk they’re beg helpful, but to actually be helpful, do thgs that are helpful that actually will help women succeed, ” he was a domant issue ahead of the March printial electn, wh female activists for genr equaly clashg wh a risg male “anti-femist” South Korea’s failure to pass a natnal law that bans discrimatn, genr equaly activists have raised alarms about the untry’s ep-seated patriarchal views on genr and sexual orientatn, which they say are pecially harmful for young LGBTQ, who had worked as a human rights lawyer, prevly said he “do not like” homosexualy and had “no tentn” of legalizg or same-sex unns.

• The New York Tim began publishg announcements of same-sex unns September 2002, long before gay marriage was legally regnized the Uned Stat.

Asian crics of homosexualy have long argued that is a Wtern behavr, superimposed upon Eastern cultur as a nt, neo-lonial si effect of globalizatn. Even those who are not opposed to homosexualy tend to shg their shoulrs at what they believe to be a uniformly nservative ntent when to sexual polics. Acrdg to a 2019 Pew survey, wealthier untri tend to be more acceptg of homosexualy regardls of whether they are Asian or Wtern.

For example Japan, which has the world’s third biggt enomy, is signifintly more acceptg of homosexualy than, say, Israel, Poland, Lhuania, or Greece. Read more: Marriage Equaly Com to Taiwan an Historic First for Asia In fact, the wispread ntentn that homosexualy isn’t an Asian phenomenon is glorly false. Scholars Bret Hsch and Li Yhe note that tal of homoerotic relatnships, such as those of Long Yang and Emperor Ai of Han, were wily known and valorized throughout Che history.

Lbian and gay partnerships were meanwhile ubiquo throughout the Ashikaga and Edo era Japan, even unr the most reprsive, fdalistic le of s polil history. Jijian, a pejorative Che term for men who have sex wh men, arose at a time when Christian missnari began spreadg the ia that homosexualy was sful.

Leadg figur Che Buddhism have spoken out about the need for tolerance towards homosexualy, sayg that while heterosexual marriage is a ctom, “ctoms n always be changed. Even the heavily Catholic Philipp, 73% of rponnts to the Pew survey ced above said homosexualy ought to be socially acceptable. There are also relig figur om India, Hong Kong, Indonia, Japan, the Philipp and Sri Lanka among the 370 signatori of a recent claratn by the Global Interfah Commissn on LGBT+ Liv, which apologiz for relig teachgs that have “ed and ntue to e ep pa and offense to those who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex.

The New Terrori - to the north of Kowloon and often ignored by tourists who unfortunately miss this diverse, partly mountao Outlyg Islands - all the other bs of Hong Kong to the south cludg Lant Island (home to Disneyland) and Hong Kong Internatnal Airport of Hong Kong Island om the Avenue of Stars, KowloonGay Rights Hong KongHong Kong crimalised homosexualy 1991, and the age of nsent between two mal is 16. Same-sex marriag are not permted, nor are overseas same-sex marriag officially g out to one's own fay or work lleagu as beg gay is still a difficult thg for many Asian gay men, Hong Kong's wir populatn generally accept the gay gay muny ntu to raise s profile through annual events such as the Lbian & Gay Film SceneThe gay scene is mostly foced the Central District entertament zone (monly referred to as Soho) on Hong Kong Island, Cseway Bay District on Hong Kong Island and the Tsim Sha Tsui district Kowloon.