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- KOREA’S 1ST GAY DATG REALY SHOW “MAN’S ROMANCE”: SILHOUETT OF THE ST REVEALED
- CAST MEMBER OF GAY DATG SHOW NFIRMED HIS RELATNSHIP WH REAL PHOTOS OF HIS DATE
KOREA’S 1ST GAY DATG REALY SHOW “MAN’S ROMANCE”: SILHOUETT OF THE ST REVEALED
Known for beg an overtly homophobic untry, the fact that a productn like His Man exists at all, is a huge w for the LGBTQ muny South Korea. It featur eight young, profsnal gay men who all enter “Man’s Hoe” for a week to get to know each other and dip their to the datg pool. It would have been really easy for the producers to pict the men they ved to this show negative, stereotypil ways that fall le wh the homophoboic rhetoric that om South Korea, but they didn’t.
Instead, they troduced the world to eight ‘average’ gay men that also jt happened to be South Korean.
And among them, they’re all really different, plex personali that jt so happen to share one thg mon: they’re all gay. It’s really hard to pidgeon-hole the men wh negative stereotyp that follow the gay muny around, bee none of the men brought any kd of this baggage wh them to the hoe. They filled the space wh their thentic selv and watchg them get to know each other affirmed the one thg that we’ve always known all along: there is no one right way to be gay, there is not one sgle versn of what gay should look like.
CAST MEMBER OF GAY DATG SHOW NFIRMED HIS RELATNSHIP WH REAL PHOTOS OF HIS DATE
It would have been easy for the creators of His Man to put a stereotypil versn of gayns on our screens that do nothg to advance the queer agenda untri like South Korea.
If progrs is ever gog to happen homophobic spac, showg those at the center of all that the queer muny has more mon wh the heterosexual muny than they don’t, is ccial. Exposg homophobia. He explaed this further and said that if he had never married her, then Jeong-Ho wouldn’t exist, which he nsired to be a better scenar than his son existg as a gay man.
Regardls of their faial reactns, as the men chatted about their experienc existg as gay men a homophobic untry, beme clear that they all had one shared experience mon: gay trma. Trma that wouldn’t be an issue if the heterosexual muny checked s homophobia at the door. Sendly, was important to that the viewers got to see everyday gay folks end up happy and exprsg lt and love healthy ways.