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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.

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

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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.

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

South Korea’s first openly gay boy band, Lns, released an anthem for the LGBTQ+ muny as their first song. * gay kpop music video *

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.

Holland isn’t the only openly gay celebry Korea.

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

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.

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

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

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First openly gay K-pop boy band releas sgle ‘Show Me Your Pri’ .

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