K-pop: Why 's hard for stars to be gay South Korea | CNN

Contents:

• ARE BTS GAY?
• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• DK LUMN: GAY MEMBERS BTS?
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

ARE BTS GAY?

Are any members of BTS gay? BTS group members are often portrayed by fans gay fictn.

An example of BTS Gay Fictn is Vkook, a love story between V and Jungkook.

IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY

Homosexualy or simple iendship of BTS? Are they gay? On the idol si of BTS, releas about homosexualy are often supportive of the LGBT muny.

Moreover, we know that there is a real taboo on Gays South Korea. The untry do not see homosexualy a good light and this is one reason that may expla the vaguens this affair. In realy, there is a lack of verifiable rmatn that there are gay BTS members.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

BTS' Gay Ships. In this article we will therefore see the 5 most famo gay Ships on BTS.

The Vkook, also lled Taekook, is a theory that imag a gay uple between Jungkook and V Taehyung. In this send gay Ships, we fd aga Jungkook, however he is imaged a relatnship wh Jim.

The Namj uple is a gay ship created by the Army which featur RM (Kim Nam Joon) and J (Kim Seok J).

DK LUMN: GAY MEMBERS BTS?

Are BTS Members Gay? What is like to be gay South Korea?

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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. “It’s kd of sad, ” said Jungm Kwon, an amic who wrote a book lled “Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasi.

“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.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

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.

“It’s a shame that’s the lim they n go when to showg homosexual teractn – n only be portrayed as funny.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

After Hong me out publicly as gay 2000, he was fired om his hostg job and lost other work – and thor Kwon believ that harsh rponse has disuraged others om followg su. Holland thks thgs are changg: more artists appear to be ditg that they are alli of the gay muny. In the absence of nfirmatn, mentators have ed small, clive clu to speculate on their stance, for example, the time the band’s lear RM tweeted Macklemore’s song “Same Love, ” which promot equal rights for gay people.

But ultimately, experts believe a time when gay stars are accepted mastream K-pop uld still be some way off. Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N.