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Contents:

• GAY LOS ANGEL
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THE BEST SOUTH KOREA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SOUTH KOREA
• THE BT GAY BARS SEOUL

GAY LOS ANGEL

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. 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.

“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, 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 posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.

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

” (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.

” 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. The lol gay scene has been growg recent years, and more and more LGBT tablishments have popped up.

THE BEST SOUTH KOREA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SOUTH KOREA

Owoo Bar, Contemporary Owoo is amongst the younger gay tablishments the cy. However, not only ladi but also gay men are wele here. Good mic adds to the relaxed vibe and make this certaly one of the bt gay bars Seoul.

This small gay bar plays mic rangg om techno and hoe to pop remix. Pk Hole was one of the first gay bars Seoul and the first to anize lbian party events.

Lookg Star Nightclub, Gay Bar, Pub Gb The founrs of Lookg Star took to Facebook and asked Seoul’s gay muny what the ial LGBT club should be like. Lookg Star is one of the hottt plac for gay men Seoul.

THE BT GAY BARS SEOUL

The tablishment is a h wh lol and foreign lbians and also wel gay men. Le Queen Gay Bar, Contemporary, Pub Gb Le Queen is a hotspot for first-class drag shows. Gay (foreigner) life South Korea?

Anywho, I have been an out and proud homo for about 6 years now.

I've been to Taiwan before, so I know at least if I study there then there is no real expectatn for me to go back the closet, but I'm not so sure if that would be te if I cid to choose I know is a very relig untry and many (olr) Koreans are not iendly to gays. I'm wonrg if anyone uld share their experience on beg gay (as a foreigner preferably) South Korea? Are there other gays that are publicly out?

Los Angel is one of the bt statns on earth for gay travelers. The populatn of Wt Hollywood is roughly 40% LGBT+, makg one of the gayt neighbourhoods on earth – arguably the gayt any big cy.