Youngshik D. Bong, The Gay Rights Movement Democratizg Korea, Korean Studi, Vol. 32 (2008), pp. 86-103
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THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT DEMOCRATIZG KOREA
* the gay rights movement in democratizing korea *
The Gay Rights Movement Democratizg Korea on JSTOR. AlexanrSoclogy2019For young men navigatg a sexual inty that li on the periphery of culturally unrstood and polilly acceptable disurs, plac where one exprs such inti be necsary to… Homosexualy ancient and morn Koreayoung-gwan kimSook-Ja HahnSoclogy, MediceCulture, health & sexualy2006Current Korean perspectiv on male homosexualy are examed by explorg both the ancient history of the practice of male homosexualy and current thkg about homosexual life among Koreans, which has played an important part the formatn of ntemporary attus toward Gay Rights Movement Democratizg Korea2006Namsŏng Tongsŏngaeja ipchŭng chiptan seksŭ[Gay Orgy... No One Hid], Weekly Donga, Mar2006Korean Actor’s Realy Drama: Comg Out as Gay, ’New York Tim, Oct2003Han’g yŏsŏng tongsŏngaeja undong kwa p’emijŭm: Kkirikkiri hwaltong ŭl chungsim ŭro’[Lbian Movement Korea and Femism: The Role…2003.
The Gay Rights Movement Democratizg Korea. Buildg on the existg scholarly lerature on gay rights Korea, this article exam the problems of sexual mori and their fight agast them the ary, mass media, the tnal system, and the urts. It also highlights the key pots of ntentn and obstacl to unrpng the current state of sexual mori and discs the likely future trajectory of the gay rights movement Korean society.
Homosexualy is not illegal South Korea (or exprsly legal), but before the late 1980s the untry was led by dictatorial regim and cizens enjoyed few civil liberti, never md sexual rights.
The transn to mocracy and the experience of globalizatn have transformed the ways Korea as a natn f s natnal inty. Risg public attentn and acceptance of human rights issu have rulted discernable polil chang the areas of human rights, but sexual mori are still left outsi such posive velopments. Buildg on the existg scholarly lerature on gay rights Korea, this article exam the problems of sexual mori and their fight agast them the ary, mass media, the tnal system, and the urts. It also highlights the key pots of ntentn and obstacl to unrpng the current state of sexual mori and discs the likely future trajectory of the gay rights movement Korean society. * the gay rights movement in democratizing korea *
A small and tentative LGBT movement emerged the 1990s, but even the year 2000, when proment actor Hong Seok-chun me out as gay — the first Korean entertaer to do so — he lost all his TV, film and rad ntracts. As recently as 2007, a Pew Rearch Center Attus Survey found that jt 18 percent of South Koreans felt that homosexualy should be tolerated.
But there is some good news: durg a siar survey last June, the figur shot up, wh 39 percent of rponnts now havg no objectns to homosexualy. “Koreans are really begng to engage the phenomenon [of homosexualy] on their own terms, and realize that ’s not somethg imported om the Wt, but that homosexualy has always been a part of life Korea, ” said Bre Divy School profsor Stephen Sprkle, who is the first openly gay tenured-profsor at his stutn and thor of the book Who Trampled The Rabow Flag? “As a gay man, and when I was sgle, I always felt like I had to face everythg by myself, ” Kim Sng-hwan says.