Tens of thoands attend South Korea's largt annual LGBT ftival on Saturday, vowg to ntue fightg for gay rights after the Seoul cy ernment nied them a prime spot and gave to an anti-LGBT Christian group.
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JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
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Origatg 1960s Japan, where was known as “yaoi, ” BL typilly picts two men a homoerotic relatnship. Some LGBTQ activists have acced BL stori of fetishizg and appropriatg gay culture.
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.
The foundatn is lked wh the Christian broadster CTS, which has volly opposed homosexualy and the pri ftival, acrdg to Rters. Homophobia is rife South Korea, where there is no prehensive anti-discrimatn laws to protect LGBTQ people. REUTERS/Mwoo Park Acquire Licensg RightsSEOUL, July 1 (Rters) - Tens of thoands attend South Korea's largt annual LGBT ftival on Saturday, vowg to ntue fightg for gay rights after the Seoul cy ernment nied them a prime spot and gave to an anti-LGBT Christian Seoul Queer Culture Ftival, staged outsi cy hall the natn's pal annually sce 2015, except for two years durg COVID-19, was stead held nearby after the cy ernment May gave the perm for a Christian youth ncert to be held at the prime spot.
GAY LIFE SOUTH KOREA
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"South Korea is enjoyg a rise global stat but LGBT rights here are at rock bottom, " she year's march began hundreds of metr om cy hall, surround by onlookers and anti-LGBT Christian group CTS, which has volly opposed homosexualy, said was not tryg to thwart LGBT people. "That we aimed to block homosexualy, as some say, is not te, and this (youth) event was to give urage and hope to young people this tough time, ” said Cho Jong Yun, managg director at cy ernment did not rpond to a requt for ment when issued the LGBT event's anisers timated some 35, 000 people joed the 10 South Koreans support legalisg same-sex marriage, acrdg to a Gallup poll May, supporters have been narrowg the gap wh those who disapprove recent Kyu J and Kim Saeyeon, a lbian uple who married abroad and recently announced a pregnancy, one the first openly LGBT South Korean upl to do so, joed Saturday's march.