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Contents:

• SEOUL GAY SNAS
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAY SCENE SEOUL? - SEOUL FOM
• GAY SEOUL SEOUL CY GUI
• GAY SNA EXPERIENC
• GAY JONGNO: HIDN PLA SIGHT

SEOUL GAY SNAS

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JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

More Seoul Listgs:General Informatn | Bars, Cabarets, Diss, Karaoke | Massage and SpasSouth Korea Gay & Lbian Rource Listgs by Cy:other ci and provc. There were over a dozen other people (mostly olr men too) sleepg this room and not even reactg to the loud gay sex that was happeng (asi om one du who cid to start pleasurg himself).

I'm actually gay and have been to a gay bathhoe before so of urse this didn't shock me terms of two men engagg terurse. However, for to happen a untry that I know to be very homophobic, I was extremely shocked and nfed, and after beg locked out of my apartment all I wanted was a cent night's sleep. Special thanks to Ross, Travelg Gay, jtsurf12, spartanalum, PJack, gymtoy, Chichubby3rd, byungdohsuh, Demian71, boyboy1976, Gabrielkr, njbear1965, rayrrr, geme, cyrc_84, sglenote, KokAsianBear, themeant, FloridaBoy, bigozibear, ratte, Specter, Byungdohsuh, Graeme, Ken, Jyong, Robbie, Louis Y., John S., Charlie, and David!

Seoul has hundreds of gay bars spread around a handful of neighborhoods, but most tourists bee faiar wh Itaewon, a foreigner-iendly enclave that seems to have people om every untry on the pla wanrg around, along wh many Amerin and Korean soldiers. The gay heart of Itaewon, nicknamed "Homo Hill", has seen an explosn of foreigner-iendly, upsle gay bars, a nvenient lotn. Queen UTOPIA VERIFIED MAR 2018Loted on Homo Hill between Trance and Always Homme, Utopia Map793-1290, email.

GAY SCENE SEOUL? - SEOUL FOM

Large wdows look out over Homo Hill and a strip of gltery bubble chairs le the pat for good weather ont row seatg. The clientele is VERY mixed both as to orientatn (gay, lez, bi, straight, other) as well as ethnicy, wh beg the one of the most popular LGBTQ night spots for foreigners Korea. Jongno is Seoul's biggt gay enclave, wh more than a hundred clubs and venu loted the center of Seoul the Nagwon Dong neighborhood to the north and east of Topkol Park (Inpennce Park).

But, Jongno is changg wh the tim and newer addns to the gay neighborhood tend to be larger, more open and more ternatnal outlook. In the eveng, the lan and alleys of this nsely packed, low-rise area, bee filled wh food tents, tipsy salarymen, and thoands of gay men gog to and om their favore havens.

But if you're alone, try some of the bars listed below where you'll be at ease wh a more ternatnal gay bar system and iendly, English-speakg staff to wele you. Korean, English and Che languag are spoken here, so, for foreign visors, 's a good place to get updated rmatn about gay culture Korea. More Seoul Listgs:General Informatn | Massage and Spas | SnasKorea Gay & Lbian Rource Listgs by Cy:other ci and provc.

GAY SEOUL SEOUL CY GUI

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Anti-discrimatn laws have been enacted protectg homosexuals and tn about homosexualy is now takg place lower schools. ntent ratg system classifyg gay and lbian webs as "harmful media" and mandatg their blockage--all unr the guise of protectg youth.

The Mistry acted after an April 2001 cisn by the Korean Informatn and Communitns Ethics Commtee (ICEC)--an officially pennt body wh wi censorship powers--which classified homosexualy unr the tegory of "obsceny and perversn" s "Creria for Incent Inter S. " Activists Korea trace the roots of this fn to a 1997 law that classifi scriptns of "homosexual love" as "harmful to youth. The owner of, the first and largt gay webse Korea, received a notice statg that if did not immediately mark self as a 'harmful se' and stall filterg software to prevent youth accs, he would be penalized wh a fe of approximately US$10, 000 or two years imprisonment.

GAY SNA EXPERIENC

On January 10, 2002, affiliatn wh Lbian and Gay Alliance Agast Discrimatn (LGAAD) and the Lawyers for a Democratic Society filed the first lawsu agast Korean ernment for unnstutnally blockg accs.

A urt cisn was ma on Augt 14, 2002 that eedom of speech and exprsn were not applible regardg homosexualy, and allowed for outrageo penalti, cludg two year imprisonment, to be enforced. On April 2, 2003 the Korean Natnal Human Rights Protectn Commtee officially advised Korea's Youth Protectn Commtee to remove anti-gay language om the 1997 Youth Protectn Act that that unrpned the 2001 Mistry of Informatn and Communitns cisn. Unls you are a Karaoke addict the bt advice is to steer clear of karaoke-type 't miss readg this fascatg look at Gay and Lbian Life Korea.

GAY JONGNO: HIDN PLA SIGHT

The olst and only gay men's rights anizatn Korea, Chgai is a succsor of Chodong-hoe, the first homosexual activist group the untry, anized 1993. Chgai has served as a shelter for Korean gay men, who have no official or public voice of their own, and as an arena for stggle agast all prejudice and opprsn directed at homosexuals.

This group seeks to abolish discrimatn agast sexual mori; foster operatn among mory groups; tablish an alliance agast opprsn of workers; tablish shields agast illegal vtigatn of gay bars and biased news reportg about sexual mori; and to strengthen HIV/AIDS tn aimed at youth. A gay jjimjilbang (sleepg/cisg facily) and has one large room, seven private rooms, one middle-sized room, DVD room, showers, small lounge, rt room.

A good spa (que gay, discreet) is loted between and parallel to Kum Nam No and Art St (Art St is mentned may tourist pamphlets). Kkaji is small: there are about 16 statns four rooms (none private or wh doors) and three puters wh Net unr a TV playg gay vios. 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. Supposedly the gay scene Itaewon is younger and more "clubby", while the olr gay people who jt want to hang out and drk go to Jongno. There were probably 12-15 guys of all ag there at any given time, perhaps one third Korean and close to half of them gay.

Immediately after, the woman at the ont proceed to make up a le about no touchg the back and admted to beg homophobic bee isn't somethg she lik to see. For your five Seoul gay gui, you’ve e to the right bt hotels SeoulLet’s start this gay Seoul travel gui wh a roundup of the bt plac to stay Seoul. Down the street, the home-grown Lotte Hotel Seoul Executive Tower boasts 5-star opulence signed by no ls than four world-leadg sign ameni abound Seoul’s top hotels, for sight to the foundatns of tradnal Korean livg, you’ll want to experience life at Rak Ko Jae, a quat 130-year-old gut hoe wh Bchon Village, entirely ma om wood and stone, featurg a mud sna, fay vib and home oked Korean, Long Chim KcheniRemend hotels Gay Seoul - SeoulSpecial SelectnExclive Mr Hudson offersExplore more.

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.”Ahn was so aaid of his parents’ reactn if he me out to them that he had a backpack and a iend on standby se he need to leave. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.

He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island,” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. But the muny is beg visible — California now has an out Asian Amerin ngrsman and state legislators — and partyg person remas an important way to nnect, even an onle age.“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1,000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual,” said Ahn, 37.On a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi se.Some posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.

“If we get our face out there, then people will start takg a ltle more serly.” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.” Duran eventually rigned om his posn as mayor, cg health reasons, after several other allegatns of sexual harassment.Miss Shu Mai, a Taiwane Amerin drag queen who hosted the K-Pop Night, relled seeg whe actors yellowface — makp that ma them look East Asian L.A.’s drag scene.

(Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) “In a time when there is anti-Asian hate and feels like the whole world is cmblg … what’s more revolutnary polilly than dancg, havg a good time and lovg one another?” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.“I am an environment where I feel safe exprsg myself,” he said.Then, he cut the terview short.“Attentn” by NewJeans was playg, and he uldn’t rist spng around, lghg and dancg on the floor. There are also a few gay karaoke bars this area, but be aware that you'll be expected to purchase expensive si dish wh your drks.

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