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K-POP’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ARTIST BUTS MIC VIO ABOUT LGBTQ LOVE

Holland is Korea's first openly gay K-pop artist, and a new vio for his but sgle 'Neverland,' he puts that inty ont and center. * gay kpop music video *

HOLLAND’s “Neverland” This was the but song of the first openly gay K-Pop idol – a te in. BESTIE’s “Exce Me” At one pot the vio, a girl asks a guy for his number – but he turns out to be gay.

Nell’s “The Day Before” This song addrs the heavy relatn between homosexualy and suici. What mak this song’s mic vio even more impactful was that was released on May 17th which is the ternatnal day agast homophobia, bi-phobia, and transphobia. His mic vio featur an amazg reprentatn of a gay uple, ternatnal upl, and racial diversy.

Holland is Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, and a new vio for his but sgle “Neverland, ” he puts that inty ont and center. Same-sex relatnships are still nsired taboo (though not illegal) Korean culture, and gay marriage or partnerships are not legally regnized by the untry.

FIRST OPENLY GAY K-POP BOY BAND RELEAS SGLE ‘SHOW ME YOUR PRI’

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Holland isn’t the only openly gay celebry Korea. It tak a lot of guts to be an open gay a untry which is closed md when ncerns the LGBT+ muny. He’s the first gay K-pop idol.

Korea is extremely closed-md when to thgs like that, so the pany promotg him as a gay idol is a good thg.

Commonly labelled the ‘first gay K-pop idol’, Holland has been powerfully outspoken when to LGBTQ+ reprentatn South Korea.

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

Speakg to GAY TIMES 2019, the K-pop star opened up about advotg on behalf of the muny: “LGBTQ rights Korea are still not very progrsive parison to some other untri”. The untry has ma stris acceptg the gay muny, wh a rerd number of people showg up for Seoul’s annual pri ftival. And jt last year, a watchdog group reported that the ary had lnched a “wch hunt” to prosecute gay soldiers after a vio emerged showg two male soldiers havg sex.

“Milary vtigators ed the rmatn they gaed om the vtigatn on the sex vio to track down other gay soldiers the army, startg by forcg the spects to intify who they had sex wh and then wing their search om there, ” Lim Tae-hoon, head of the Milary Human Rights Center for Korea, told The Associated untry’s print, Moon Jae-, me out opposn to homosexualy and the legalizatn of same-sex marriage while on the mpaign trail, angerg LGBTQ rights activists. songs kpop that n be nsired gay/have gay mic vios?

VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL

Somethg i’ve been wonrg for awhile now is how many gay kpop songs there are out there.

Seori) and some wh mic vios that n be nsired gay (ex. The untry’s ary recently sentenced a pta to prison for sleepg wh other servicemen, and over half of South Korea’s populatn thought homosexualy was “unacceptable” 2014, acrdg to a Pew survey. A product of s environment, K-pop has a long way to go to be clive: There aren’t any openly gay sgers currently, and LGBTQIA-posive songs are rare.

The mic vio for ’s heart-wrenchg ballad seems pretty typil, until a last-mute plot twist turns “Please Don’t” to a subtle nod at the difficulti gay men face Korea, where double liv are rampant among the LGBTQ muny. ” The song was about Cheetah beg an empowered woman g to her own after risg to fame, but the vio gloried the bodi of the drag queens and femal actg as backup dancers, which looked a whole lot like the sort of vios that have ma Taiwane sger Jol Tsai the gay in she is.

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Vio Rurfac Of Kg Von Tellg Police He's "Gay" In Jail.

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