A watchdog group says South Korea's army is huntg down and prosecutg gay servicemen after a vio of male soldiers havg sex was posted onle.
Contents:
- IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
- NORTH KOREA’S ‘ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR’ FDS LOVE
- GAY SOUTH KOREA: 'SHE SAID I DON'T NEED A SON LIKE YOU'
- ‘WHAT IF MY FAY FOUND OUT?’: KOREA’S CORONAVIS TRACKG UNNERV GAY COMMUNY
- AFTER SEX VIO, SOUTH KOREA ACCED OF TARGETG GAY SOLDIERS
IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
What is like to be gay South Korea?
Homophobia is still rife South Korea, where very few mastream mic stars have e out as gay.
There, homosexual sex is not banned, but is illegal the ary, where almost all men mt plete a stt of pulsory nscriptn.
NORTH KOREA’S ‘ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR’ FDS LOVE
“It’s kd of sad, ” said Jungm Kwon, an amic who wrote a book lled “Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasi.
GAY SOUTH KOREA: 'SHE SAID I DON'T NEED A SON LIKE YOU'
“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. 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.
‘WHAT IF MY FAY FOUND OUT?’: KOREA’S CORONAVIS TRACKG UNNERV GAY COMMUNY
South Korea’s rerd labels are happy to let fans fantasize about idols beg gay. But they don’t want gay idols be open about their sexualy.
But when me time to but, the label was agast him butg as a gay idol.
AFTER SEX VIO, SOUTH KOREA ACCED OF TARGETG GAY SOLDIERS
“It’s a shame that’s the lim they n go when to showg homosexual teractn – n only be portrayed as funny.