K-dramas might be featurg more gay characters – jt watch Where Your Ey Lger or To My Star – but South Korea’s showbiz still has a way to go
Contents:
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
- 5 STYLISH KOREAN ACTORS AND THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY CHARACTERS THEY PLAYED ON K-DRAMAS
- BL / GAY (*RATED ORR*)
- BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021
- 11 K-DRAMAS THAT DIDN'T SHY AWAY OM GAY RELATNSHIPS
- GAY DRAMAS/MOVI
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
'Passag' is NC-17, 'Red, Whe & Royal Blue' is R—are gay films beg rated on a stricter sle? * who is gay in drama *
As many are quick to pot out, Passag‘ NC-17 ratg reeks of homophobia, spirg wrer-director Sachs to ll out the MPA for beg “anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex. The whole thg brgs to md the recent R-ratg for Amazon’s upg gay rom- Red, Whe & Royal Blue, based off the popular book of the same name by Casey McQuiston—self a massive h wh olr teen and young adult dienc. To s cred, Red, Whe & Royal Blue isn’t y about the gay relatnship at s center and do clu a small handful of fleetg love-makg scen, but they are— this wrer’s timatn (havg seen an early preview of the film)—pretty tame and barely even show sk.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
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Well, there’s one thg the two movi have mon… Are films that feature gay them and gay sex judged on a harsher sle? “We’re talkg about a select group of people who have a certa bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex—a lot of thgs which I’m not.
The Sixth Commandment9pm, BBC OneTimothy Spall stars this dark drama by Sarah Phelps based on the horrifyg real-life se of Peter Farquhar, an elrly, eply closeted gay amic who was sced, exploed and eventually murred by too-good-to-be-te stunt Ben Field (Éanna Hardwicke). Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person. “The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds.
“We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.
5 STYLISH KOREAN ACTORS AND THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY CHARACTERS THEY PLAYED ON K-DRAMAS
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Image source, Tham Valley PoliceImage ptn, Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Mart were both sgle and vulnerableBoth Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Mart were relig, sgle and whout Farquhar retired as Stowe School's head of English 2004 and was ved to be a gut lecturer at the Universy of Buckgham, where he met stunt the urt se, the jury heard how Mr Farquhar had a wi circle of iends but he was lonely and, as a gay man, he stggled wh his sexualy, regardg as patible wh his Anglin fah. Former sger, performer, and actor, Lee Ho-dong or better known as Hoya was the first few actors who played a gay character across Korean televisn. 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.
BL / GAY (*RATED ORR*)
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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. It was there the wrer said Total Drama Island will have s first openly gay character and same-sex romance when lnch.
Shows like Netflix’s Vcenzo and Me are featurg more gay characters but South Korea’s showbiz still has a way to goIn South Korea, beg homosexual might not be illegal, but acceptance is still a long way away the nservative untry – and this is largely reflected the entertament we talk about LGBTQ+ reprentatn Korean pop culture, films have fared way better than the small screen. This versn omted the ccial lyrics, “No matter gay, straight or bi, lbian, transgenr life”, drawg accatns of LGBTQ+ censorship is not unmon South Korea, pecially when to LGBTQ+ characters. In 2010, a romantic vow between two male characters Life is Betiful – regard as Korea’s first drama to feature a gay uple – was censored after the church where the scene was filmed filed a plat wh SBS.
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A natnal mothers’ group ran a discrimatory newspaper advertisement that said, “When my son be gay and is flicted wh Aids watchg Life is Betiful, SBS should take the blame, ” acrdg to Korea JoongAng Daily.
Queerbag generally refers to strongly htg at a gay relatnship between characters orr to appeal to LGBTQ+ viewers and palise on their tert, but whout actually followg through on the ial pictn – or sometim even turng to a 2017 drama The Boy Next Door tells the story of two attractive sgl (played by Choi Woo-shik and Jang Ki Yong) who are flatmat mistaken for a gay uple. The show featured many il, suggtive and homoerotic scen that enuraged the dience to image the two characters havg a same-sex relatnship, but the show never wr them as an actual gay uple. )Vcenzo’s eighth episo featured a queerbag moment when the protagonist, played by Song Joong-ki, pretends to be gay durg a missn.
11 K-DRAMAS THAT DIDN'T SHY AWAY OM GAY RELATNSHIPS
11 K-Dramas that didn't shy away om gay relatnships * who is gay in drama *
Photo: NetflixElsewhere, Song Joong-ki’s h Netflix drama Vcenzo also falls prey to this by featurg a queerba bromance and negatively portrayg s sgle gay character.
The eighth episo shows Song’s character, the tular Vcenzo, pretendg to be gay to succeed a missn, rultg mixed reactns om viewers.
There are also other tl like To My Star, Wish You and Nobleman Ryu that will satisfy fans who prefer more idyllic gay romanc set fictnal worlds where beg gay is not owned drama To My Star featur a more idyllic gay relatnship. Some rears and viewers argue that the BL genre rults flat, one-dimensnal pictns, while others believe that if straight women create and nsume ntent about gay male characters, the practice is tomatilly fetishistic.
GAY DRAMAS/MOVI
However, that don’t mean negative portrayals have vanished altogether; for stance, 2021’s mega-h Squid Game, we saw a gay predator sudnly featured for no apparent Seo-hyung Me.
However, this might be ed by society beg more ut about stereotypg genrs, rather than the unrlyg hate for sexual mori dimishg, ” said one gay rights activist to Korea Herald. However, I wonr how 'll turn out due to the Che media ban on LGBTQ is a reason for most Che BL/Gay themed stuff beg produced Taiwan...