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

Contents:

• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• KPOP STARS THAT HAS BEEN RUMORED AS GAY [PART 2]

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

“This panel, we’re jt gog to show our gay, ” Lai Franc proclaimed to the packed crowd at KCon’s panel on LGBT fandom Korean pop mic.

“I saw that there wasn’t a lot of gay stuff K-Pop media, but I saw the culture that the men are a ltle more open to touchg, ” Eddi said. “There’s not a lot of actual gay reprentatn K-Pop, a lot of men are allowed to be feme. I remember showg them to some people and they thought their looks were too girly or, other words, ‘gay.

’”One of Eddi’s favore gay K-Pop moments is the song “Party XXO” by the sce-disband girl group Glam.

KPOP STARS THAT HAS BEEN RUMORED AS GAY [PART 2]

Franc said that fans equently mishear one of the lyrics to the song “Heart Shaker” as “Is Sana gay? There are gay artists, like the new idol Holland, but for the most part, Korean culture is much more nservative pared to the Uned Stat. ” He’s ma mic vios for K-Pop songs which he picts himself fallg for male idols, and he also has ma a vio about Korean gay slang:“There are moments where you thk you are open, out and ee, but society will knock on your door to remd you that you are still stuck behd , ” Eddi said.

What is like to be gay South Korea? 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.