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• GAY SOUTH KOREA: 'SHE SAID I DON'T NEED A SON LIKE YOU'
• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• SOUTH KOREAN URT GRANTS GAY UPLE HEALTH BENEFS LANDMARK LG
• SOUTH KOREAN GAY UPLE SE URT W AS BREAKTHROUGH FOR EQUALY
• NORTH KOREA’S ‘ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR’ FDS LOVE
• GAY SOUTH KOREAN UPLE LOSE EQUAL VERAGE LAWSU AGAST HEALTH SURER
• GAY SOUTH KOREAN FILM DIRECTOR MARRI HIS PARTNER PUBLIC
• ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IN SOUTH KOREAALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IN SOUTH KOREA
• WTERN VALU INSPIRE GAY RIGHTS DEBATE S. KOREA
• S​OUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ​ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX
• TAIWAN GAY MARRIAGE: PARLIAMENT LEGALIS SAME-SEX UNNS
• FIRST GAY MARRIAGE SOUTH KOREA CS A STIR
• CONSERVATIVE RAD HOST, REVEREND SUGGT GAY MARRIAGE AND KIM JONG UN THREATS LKED
• SOUTH KOREA REGNIZ GAY MARRIAGE
• KIM JONG-UN COM OUT IN SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE: 'I'M NOT A MONSTER'

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

Tuday’s landmark cisn by the Seoul high urt overturned a prev lg by a lower urt January 2022 that rejected a gay uple’s petn after one partner was told he had to make separate health surance South Korean law, a pennt is exempt om makg health surance payments if their spoe meets certa employment ndns. 1% Of people South Korea agreed that transgenr people should be able to have surgery to match their genr inty58% of Koreans oppose same-sex marriage34% support same-sex marriage90% of Koreans said they supported equal employment opportuni for LGBT peopleHistoryHomosexual activy South Korea?

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

However, there are some signs that rtrictns on LGBTQ service members may be easg: In 2022, the South Korean Supreme Court overturned the nvictn of two soldiers for gay sex, and 2021, a district urt posthumoly restated a transgenr soldier who died by suici after beg dismissed om the donatns by MSMs South Korea?

Right-wg lawmakers troduced legislatn last year that would remove any reference to “sexual orientatn” as a possible source of discrimatn unr the mandate of the Natnal Human Rights Commissn of liberal Print Moon Jae-, a former human rights lawyer, said on the mpaign trail 2017 that he disliked homosexualy and had “no tentn” of legalizg print, Moon has said he oppos discrimatn, but he has also said that society “has yet to reach a nsens” on legalizg same-sex unns and that the issue needs more Rights Watch reported November that LGBT youth South Korea experienced difference or outright hostily that left them feelg isolated and jeopardized their mental said she feels attus are gradually changg. She dreams of one day beg s first non-European, first female and first openly gay chief executive — a “totem of diversy, ” she the uple still face many obstacl their daily are treated as separate for the purpose of securg a mortgage, they nnot sign medil nsent forms as next-of-k, and for heranc, Korean law giv close fay members tomatic precence, leavg anythg that benefs an unmarried partner vulnerable to legal the ceremony Manhattan, the uple honeymooned the Seychell, but their return to South Korea was a slap back to realy.

SOUTH KOREAN URT GRANTS GAY UPLE HEALTH BENEFS LANDMARK LG

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.

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". ” 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. Kim and her wife held a marriage ceremony 2019, they registered their marriage New York bee same-sex marriage is still illegal South the bill stalled fely, many gay, lbian and transgenr South Koreans are rolved to live as they wish, not wag for the law to tch up wh people are g out publicly.

SEOUL, Feb 27 (Rters) - For So Sung- and Kim Yong-m, who last week won a landmark Seoul urt lg on natnal health verage for gay upl, the ti may fally be turng their years-long stggle for equal regnn South Korea for LGBT 32-year-old activists, together sce they first met durg their natnal service a ago, have regularly posted about their relatnship on social media and public foms, cludg a weddg ceremony 2019 that drew some 300 atten. "The two also managed to secure natnal health surance verage for So, who works wh a youth HIV support group, as a pennt based on his partnership wh Kim, an employee for an anisatn that advot for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer when lol media drew attentn to the pair's story and the Natnal Health Insurance Service's official acknowledgement that they were a uple, the thori backtracked and revoked So's verage, sayg the approval had been an admistrative began a two-year legal stggle as So sued the health service, ially losg a lol admistrative urt but prevailg when the Seoul High Court last week reversed urse and affirmed his right to verage. StatisticsApproval of the legalizatn of same-sex marriag South Korea 2019, by genr Opns on LGBT reprentatn the media South Korea 2019Same-sex marriag Brazil 2015-2020, by genrColombia: number of same-sex marriag 2017Colombia: number of same-sex marriag 2016-2017Same-sex marriag Brazil 2015-2020Number of marriag Brazil 2020, by genrAttus towards legalizatn of same-sex marriage Lat Ameri 2016, by untryApproval rate of the legalizatn of same-sex marriag Japan 2018, by age groupApproval of the legalizatn of same-sex marriag among LGBT people Japan 2018Approval of the legalizatn of same-sex marriag Japan 2018Approval rate of the legalizatn of same-sex marriag Japan 2018, by genrApproval of the legalizatn of same-sex marriag among straight people Japan 2018Attus of property owners towards gay uple lse Japan 2018, by age groupAttus of property owners towards lbian uple lse Japan 2018, by age groupHate-motivated vlence and harassment agast LGBTI Poland 2019Public opn on thorizg same sex marriag Hungary 2020Statista Acunts:.

SOUTH KOREAN GAY UPLE SE URT W AS BREAKTHROUGH FOR EQUALY

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

Drsed whe, Kim and his partner of ne years, Kim Sng-hwan, staged an ceremony on a stage overlookg a stream, wh a choir and var artists performg a mil men ma clear they were trailblazg a society where tradnal valu keep many homosexuals om g out, let alone prsg for legal approval for same-sex unns. Gays and lbians have been subject to hate crim, wh one gay man sprayed wh hydrochloric acid 2008 by an Zealand last month beme the first untry the Asia-Pacific regn to legalise gay marriage, wh many Atralians now travellg there to tie the knot.

NORTH KOREA’S ‘ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR’ FDS LOVE

Thailand, one of the most liberal untri the regn, do not regnise same-sex marriag, but a civil partnership law givg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) upl the same rights as heterosexuals is beg said he would nohels formally apply to get his marriage legally registered after the ceremony. Bee, not so long ago, the Rpect for Marriage Act ― which creat feral protectns for same-sex upl and outflanks the Supreme Court's theocrats ― was unthkable, unimagable, and recently as 1996, Gallup's pollsters reported that only 27 percent of Amerins supported gay marriage. That same year, Print Bill Clton read the tea leav and signed an anti-gay bill, passed by a Republin Congrs wh solid bipartisan support, that fed marriage as a bond of man and woman, banned feral regnn of gay marriag, and permted stat to ban regnn of gay upl wedd elsewhere.

GAY SOUTH KOREAN UPLE LOSE EQUAL VERAGE LAWSU AGAST HEALTH SURER

And what better way to drive evangelils to the polls than to put anti-gay marriage referenda on the ballots 11 stat ― most notably Oh, a swg state back numero polil science scholars have sce termed, those referenda (which warned that sry gay marriage would sk wtern civilizatn) helped attract an outsized number of evangelil voters ― particularly pivotal Oh, where some analysts even believe that the heftier base turnout was pivotal puttg Bh over the top 2004. They paid no polil price for that eher, wng reelectn , of urse, there's still some shrill ristance to marriage equaly ― Fox News' Lra Ingraham baselsly says that the new law weakens relig people's eedoms, while talk show agator Matt Walsh says that nservativ who favor marriage equaly are "stupid pansi" ―but the naysayers and homophob are outliers. Gay people creasgly live openly and share their liv wh straight iends and fay ― and how ftg was that Joe Bin, a 10-year marriage equaly advote, wield the signg Print Lyndon Johnson said on the eve of his battle for civil rights, "Well, what the hell's the princy for?

Asia Pacific|S​outh Korea’s Supreme Court ​Issu Landmark Rulg on Gay Sex ADVERTISEMENT​The urt said that the ary should not punish nsensual sex acts that had taken place a nonary In-Chul/Yonhap, via Associated PrsSEOUL — The Supreme Court of South Korea issued a landmark lg agast the ary’s s-old ban on homosexual activi on Thursday, strikg down guilty verdicts for two male soldiers who were dicted on a charge of havg nsensual sex while off their Korea’s Milary Crimal Act lls for up to two years prison for “anal terurse or other cent acts. Punishg the two soldiers for this vlated “their sexual tonomy” and “the nstutnally guaranteed right to equaly and human digny, as well as their right to pursue happs, ” the top urt said on Thursday, sendg the se back to a lower ​ary ​ rights groups hailed the verdict, llg “a major step forward” or “a huge victory” for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex people. In recent years, powerful right-wg Christian groups have tensified a mpaign agast homosexualy, scuttlg a bill that would have given sexual mori the same protectns as other mory have argued that sex among gay soldiers would spread AIDS the South Korean ary and unrme s reads to fight North Korea.

No wonr drew a lot of attentn om the media and gay marriage om “서울신문”The weddg was attend by 1, 000 guts cludg celebri, a polician and an activist, but not everyone who me to the ceremony were there to ngratulate the uple or wish them well.

GAY SOUTH KOREAN FILM DIRECTOR MARRI HIS PARTNER PUBLIC

Even my untry, the Philipp, where gays and lbians are more tolerated, the ia of same-sex marriage generat a lot of objectns, pecially om relig om ”서울신문”Homosexualy is NOT accepted  Korean society, so is no surprise that same-sex marriag are not legally regnized this untry. Acrdg to article 31 of the Korean Human Rights Commtee Law, ”no dividual is to be discrimated agast on the basis of his or her sexual orientatn, ” but if you ask Koreans what they thk of gays or lbians, you will get mostly negative reactns.

However, the polarizg polics of gay rights partly revers the generatnal pattern: the historilly sular, first generatn participate more mastream polics, while some wtern-ted, send-generatn Korean Christians bee tolerant and isolated om ele-ted circl.

Relig nservative activists n make for good cizens, fellow participants the project of nstctg a mon polil orr that is durable, cent, and mocratic” (253) rponse to the pro-Gaza flotilla, Howard Jabson of CNN wrote: “Human begs are seldom more dangero than when they are sentimentally overe by the goodns of their own tentns” (quoted Catapano 2011) (2000: 47) wr: “Today [racist, anti-Semic or homophobic] beliefs tomatilly banish a person om ted circl. On 16 November 2013, the Supreme Court was reported to have emed a gay romance film f for people 15-and-over, downgradg om an adults-only ratg and overturng a Korea Media Ratg Board cisn that was not f for teenagers of any age to watch [R1.

ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IN SOUTH KOREAALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IN SOUTH KOREA

On 27 Febary 2019, the Natnal Human Rights Commissn of Korea reportedly claimed did not ‘ny’ the rights of a same-sex uple to marry however rejected a petn filed by a Brish and South Korean gay uple who got married overseas and asked for their marriage to be regnized [R1. I would not be surprised that at the time when we are batg same-sex marriage, at a time when we are batg whether or not we should have gays leadg the Boy Sut movement, I don’t thk ’s jt a cince that we have a mad man Asia who is sayg some of the thgs that he’s June, Luter was elected the first Ain-Amerin print of the Southern Baptist Conventn, the natn’s largt Prottant group, the Washgton Post reported.

The lack of regnn of their unns, they said, had unfairly cut them off om servic and benefs acrd to married upl, and they sought damag of around $9, 000 per upl argued that the ernment’s failure to regnize same-sex unns vlated the nstutnal guarantee of equaly unr the law and the prohibn agast discrimatn regardls of urt agreed, wrg s cisn that laws or regulatns that prived gay upl of the legal benefs of marriage nstuted “discrimatory treatment whout a ratnal basis. Lawmakers have repeatedly cled to take up such a, activists saw the urt’s cisn as an important step tearg down barriers to normalizg gay marriage Japan, the only untry the Group of 7 natns that has not legalized same-sex unns are not explicly banned Japan, but they are not regnized by the natnal ernment or most loli.

In a 2019 poll by the advertisg giant Dentsu, almost 80 percent of rponnts 60 and unr said they supported the the untry’s notorly rigid bs muny has begun to embrace the notn of marriage equaly, marketg products to gay upl and improvg protectns for the dividual level, however, many gay people are still hant to e out bee of fears of discrimatn om a society that is famo for s often tense prsure to the platiffs, Wednday morng was an emotnal roller aster. Gay Marriage⚭✖ Unregistered habatnCensorship✖ State-enforcedChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatnVari by RegnEmployment DiscrimatnVari by RegnHog DiscrimatnVari by RegnDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned.

WTERN VALU INSPIRE GAY RIGHTS DEBATE S. KOREA

Current statSce Jul 1, 2012Banned (fe ferral) Homosexual men who are sexually active wh other men n not donate blood Cha, however, 2012, the Che Mistry of Health lifted the ban agast lbians donatg (fe ferral)In 1998, Cha banned homosexual men and women om donatg blood out of fear of spreadg HIV. Although homosexualy self is seen as fallg wh the spe of the nstutnal right to pursue one's happs the Korean legal system, homosexual marriage is not, says Lee Jong-gn, print of Kyungsung Universy, formerly a profsor of law at Donga Universy.

“There are arguments ( Korea) that a new ncept of marriage is necsary as Article 36 of the Constutn (on marriage) is unable to ver new typ of fai our society, such as same-sex marriag and sgle parent hoeholds, ” he wr “Constutnal Issu Surroundg Same Sex Marriage” published by the Constutnal Court of history of the dispute ncerng the legal stat of same-sex upl Korea dat back to 2004, when a gay uple requted a divisn of assets, havg separated after 20 years of beg together.

S​OUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ​ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX

Although the South Korean ernment do not procs the marriage registratn applitn of same-sex upl, Supreme Court data shows that 28 homosexual upl applied to register their marriag om March of 2022 to Febary of this Sung- (left) and Kim Yong-m hold a prs nference ont of the Seoul High Court this Feb. The bill never ma to the legislative stage the face of strong opposn om some relig and nservative groups which claimed would effectively “legalize homosexualy” by failg to specify a pannship should be between differg same groups are vol opposn of the Febary Uned Christian Church of Korea, the largt umbrella unn of Christian church the untry, lled the cisn that acknowledged same-sex unns for natnal health surance verage “biased.

In this cultural environment that prriz the llective good over the dividual, one would expect social prsure agast g out sce would likely dispt addrs whether proximy plays a role the acceptance of homosexualy South Korea, we surveyed 739 South Koreans this month via an experimental web survey nducted by Macrol Embra, g quota samplg by regn and genr. Rponnts were asked to evaluate the statement on a five-pot sle om strongly disagree to strongly versns were:Versn 1: I would feel fortable workg wh a homosexual personVersn 2: I would feel fortable makg iends wh a homosexual personVersn 3: I would feel fortable wh a fay member that is a homosexual personThe table below prents the percentage of rponnts that agreed or strongly agreed wh each prompt.

TAIWAN GAY MARRIAGE: PARLIAMENT LEGALIS SAME-SEX UNNS

It is promisg that ntact wh those the LGBT muny leads to more acceptance of homosexuals, although our rults show ntact alone do not overe proximy-based the South Korean LGBT movement ntu to ga visibily and more LGBT dividuals feel fortable g out, acceptance of homosexualy should crease as well.

While tolerance South Korea lags behd their mocratic neighbors — only 18 percent of Japane 2010 and 24 percent of Taiwane 2012 saw homosexualy as never jtifiable, acrdg to World Valu Survey data — such trends suggt the strength of cultural fluenc disuragg acceptance may weaken over survey ed this article was fund by the Amy of Korean Studi (AKS-2018-R05). 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.

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.

FIRST GAY MARRIAGE SOUTH KOREA CS A STIR

“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. Seemgly homophobic policians South Korea have worked tirelsly to block the passage of anti-discrimatn law, often by g church to anize their polil opposn to the bill – a move that seems siar to how Evangelil Christians Ameri e the Church as a way to anize agast abortn rights. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuday on the nstutnaly of banng same-sex marriage, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un told reporters that, nsirg he’s not a pletely awful human beg, he unequivolly believ that gay people should be able to marry.

CONSERVATIVE RAD HOST, REVEREND SUGGT GAY MARRIAGE AND KIM JONG UN THREATS LKED

“Of urse I believe gay and lbian upl should be treated equally unr the law, for God’s sake; I’m not a monster, ” the spotic lear said, addg that the ia of tryg to stop a lovg uple om legally marryg one another is not only wrong om a moral and ethil standpot but also vlat the Fourteenth Amendment.

SOUTH KOREA REGNIZ GAY MARRIAGE

KIM JONG-UN COM OUT IN SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE: 'I'M NOT A MONSTER'