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SOUTH KOREAN GAY UPLE SE URT W AS BREAKTHROUGH FOR EQUALY
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“Merry Queer” -host Hong Seok-cheon—one of the most proment openly gay celebri South Korea—spoke to TIME along wh the shows' producer Lim Chang-hyuck and “His Man” st member Lee Jeong-ho on what the shows mean for queer reprentatn. Origatg 1960s Japan, where was known as “yaoi, ” BL typilly picts two men a homoerotic relatnship.
Some LGBTQ activists have acced BL stori of fetishizg and appropriatg gay culture.