#korean lgbt

[commajade]

the seoul queer culture festival/seoul pride has been growing exponentially in size over the last two decades (from ~50 people in 2000 to ~135,000 in 2019) and the conservative pushback from christian groups and police have been increasing as well. every year church groups host massive protests and rallies with homophobic slogans and chanting on their sound systems right next to the pride parade, i've seen them. this year, the government outright denied the lgbt organizers a parade permit and gave that spot to a christian organization instead. the sqcf's organizers are accepting help via paypal, please support them if you can!

here's an article from the korea herald:

[lgbtally4ever]

HAPPY MERRY ENDING

[jiora]

PRIDE Month 왔어!

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[indigomood]

Extraordinary Attorney Woo  (2022)

Imagine Me & You (2005)

[thaibldramas]

First Look Teaser "Sangmin Dinneaw" ตัวอย่างแรก ซังมินดินเหนียว ออนแอร์ธันวาคมนี้

[dropthedemiurge]

Lee Taevin, the man you are! I decided to actually stan him after Love for Love's Sake and support him as an actor in all the other works, not necessarily BLs, but he KEEPS SURPRISING ME

He just keeps on choosing complicated and deep queer roles and deliberately seeks them out to give them justice, I adore him so much.

[lgbtally4ever]

I LOVE Korean BLs (LGBT series), Even if they don’t have sex. Even if there’s only a kiss. Doesn’t matter, because they’re romantic AF and always give you the feelz!!!

The absolute best take down of an ex ever. A+. He tore him to pieces without ever breaking a sweat. And then to end it with a darling handhold? Right in front of the ex on the bathroom floor? Perfection. @absolutebl This is the kind of takedown we need more of.

[some1willrememberus]

GL drama coming out in 2025 (last updated on February 2)

DRAMA:

Completed :

Pluto (thai drama, 12eps, GMMTV)

Mhom Ped Sawan (thai drama, 26 eps)

Love From Another Star (thai drama, 4 eps, JPC Series)

Petrichor (thai drama, 10 eps)

Ongoing :

Mate (thai drama, 12 eps, ZENSE Entertainment) [November 26 - February 11]

I Am Devil (thai drama, 8 eps, Maxlive Online TV) [December 25 - February 12]

Flirting with the INTP (korean drama, RED Q) [December 27 - ?]

First LOVE (korean drama, Lovememory 러브메모리) [December 30 - ?]

Call Me by No-Name (japanese drama, 8 eps) [January 10 - February 28]

Us (thai drama, 12 eps, dir. Fon Kanittha Kwunyoo, GMMTV) [January 18 - April 5]

Upcoming :

Hidden Heat (thai drama, 6 eps, H'our channel) [February 3 - March 4]

Reverse with Me (thai drama, 8 eps, SiamSi Studio) [February 5 - March 26]

Fragrance of the First Flower, season 2 (taiwanese drama, 12 eps) [February 18 - ?]

Sunshine in the Wind (thai drama, Studio Sabi Wabi) [TBA]

Only You (thai drama, Ch3Thailand) [TBA]

3 Minutes 2 Love 3 (thai drama, Lalana Channel) [TBA]

Girl Rules (thai drama, GMMTV) [TBA]

Whale Store xoxo (thai drama, GMMTV) [TBA]

Shades (thai drama, FRT ENTERTAINMENT) [TBA]

Buy My Boss (thai drama, FRT ENTERTAINMENT) [TBA]

The Last Case (thai drama, IDENTITY ENTERTAINMENT) [TBA]

Be Mine (thai drama, IS ENT OFFICIAL) [TBA]

I'm Your Moon (thai drama, U Entertainement) [TBA]

Flat Girls (thai movie, dir. Claire Jirassaya Wongsutin) [TBA]

Roller Coaster (thai drama, Motion Minds Entertainement) [TBA]

Somewhere Somehow (thai drama, 12 eps, dir. A Natthaphong Wongkaweepairod, IDOLFACTORY OFFICIAL) [TBA]

Trunk Girl (korean drama, SUKFILM) [TBA]

About Galaxy (thai drama, Y. Enternaiement) [TBA]

My Only Sunshine (thai drama, Star Hunter Entertainment) [TBA]

My Safe Zone (thai drama, Ch3Thailand) [TBA]

Let's Kick This Love (thai drama, 8 eps, dir. Apo Nattawin) [TBA]

No Romeo (thai drama) [TBA]

Stuck with Me (thai drama) [TBA]

Remain (thai drama) [TBA]

Cranium (thai drama, 12 eps, starring Becky Armstrong & Freen Sarocha, dir. Fuse Kittisak Cheewasatjasakun, IDOLFACTORY OFFICIAL) [TBA in 2026]

Don't hesitate to tell me if I ever missed some of them, I will add them. Thank you!

GL drama released in 2024

[handweavers]

we need more east and southeast asians on here who have any degree of familiarity with ww2 because it can't just be a handful of us shouting at gweilos about the japanese empire and fascism forever so they stop trying to make yukio mishima a progressive queer bipoc figure or whatever people say now. ive been doing it for years can someone else take over i'm tired

[dekaydk]

LGBTQ CONTENT ALERT

Support the folks who make the content we crave

Producer of QL and BL content, Korea's Strongberry is small but scrappy and brought the world a lot more content than you might expect. The CEO had a live session a little while ago, and it was reposted with English subtitles yesterday. Among the takeaways: they have a lot more interest from actors than they used to. Also, some of the content they have distributed was produced by others but needed a distribution outlet, so they are clearly a part of the ecosystem that might not otherwise exist.

It's nice and short, and he says there will be a live session with the actors during March (date TBD). Watch this and drive up the stats! Make their investors realize they have a great audience! 😀

Above all, check out their other content on Gagaoolala and YouTube.

[commajade]

i was scrolling down the feed of that korean lesbian who posted about the documentary and there's an article with a pic of my tattoo artist and her wife cuz they do a lot of marriage equality activism it's so funny scrolling a twitter account and seeing a pic of someone i know

it's a marriage equality article there's my tattoo artist yunha and her wife yeonggeul and a gay couple here too if anyone's interested in reading the korean or running a translator

[lgbtally4ever]

A First Love Story

Short Korean LGBT FILM

Free on GAGAOOLALA

[thisqueerlove]

Cha Woongki, who starred in the BL series 'Love for Love's Sake' will officially be debuting in a new kpop boygroup! Thank you to everyone who voted for him!

[bengiyo]

Love in the Big City Part 2: The Weight of Homophobia

I’ve been struggling to write about this week’s episodes. The way Yeong feels so worn down by the homophobia around him feels suffocating in a way that I haven’t had to deal with in a long time. I remain impressed with the way this adaptation brought this story to the screen, and genuinely like many of its changes.

The Internalized Homophobia Suffocates

The first thing I noticed in this section was how much quieter Yeong felt. He didn’t have the pep in his step that had him and Mi Ae skipping through grocery stores together. He wasn’t dancing in the street. He’s spending a great deal of time with his mom, and now dating a closet case. The weight of all of his pain and suffering has seemingly dimmed his light. 

@impala124 summed up the comparison between the major relationships of Parts 1 and 2 well with “Part 1 was about the loneliness that comes with not conforming to societal expectations for Yeong and Part 2 was about the pitfalls of conforming to societal expectations and how it manifests in their actions towards others.” @shinjiikar1 further detailed how both his mom and Hyung hurt Yeong with their behaviors, particularly how Christianity plays into this. I find myself lingering with the sense of futility that the expectations of heteronormativity inflicts upon us. In Part 1, Yeong found himself unable to connect with Mi Ae and Nam Gyu because of their conformity to heteronormativity, and in this section both Yeong’s mom and Hyung try to enforce that heteronormativity on Yeong. 

With his mom, she had him committed to a mental institution when she caught him with a boy. However she may feel about that now, it’s clear that she will not engage directly with his queer reality. She expressed relief when she didn’t get to meet Yeong Soo, and she will not read his books. She toes a line for herself by taking clipping of articles about her son, and letting him find that she saved a picture of him with his then boyfriend, but she will never say anything else aloud. Their relationship is difficult, and I found myself returning to the final scene with Chiron’s mom in Moonlight (2016) when we left them in the park. 

With Hyung, I find myself thinking about @lurkingshan’s observations about the way episode 3 used familiar romance tropes to build up the relationship with hyung before crushing it in episode 4. It’s easy to see how the beginning of that romance with Hyung was so intriguing. Yeong was tired, lonely, and dealing with the slow death of his mother. He had removed the couch and TV from the apartment, making it clear he’s not doing any group fun in there anymore. It was inevitable that a closet case like Yeong Soo would let Yeong down, and I’m impressed that the show gained the same mortification in Yeong Soo writing that horrible article that I still feel about him sending Yeong an edit of his own goddamned diary. 

I can’t find the comment now, but I think @wen-kexing-apologist commented about how both Umma and Hyung are obsessed with appearances. Despite her declining health, Umma tries to maintain her physical appearance, and performs Christian sacrifice by writing lines from the bible. Yeong Soo wearing ragged clothes, carries a back, speaks on philosophy, plays sports, and more to maintain his masculine appearance, and only wants to be with Yeong where others cannot see him. It’s so exhausting to be inside of the closet, and the paranoia it inflicts on you is mind numbing. I’m so glad that Yeong wasn’t actually alone with this man in this version. Finally, I keep thinking about the way @solitaryandwandering noted that the ideas of ownership play heavily with everyone’s actions in this section. So much of compulsory heteronormativity is about what others think we should be doing for them, and how they wield shame as a weapon. 

Lastly, I want to comment that I appreciated the tasteful way the director chose to show Yeong’s darkest moment. I liked that we didn’t get close-ups or see his face, and I like that we cut away from the moment in his apartment to when he wakes up in the hospital. 

The T-aras Remain The Best Change

I was surprised when the show introduced them so early in Part 1, but I’ve grown to love the T-aras so much in this show. They embody perfectly the kinds of gay friends I had in my 20s. We couldn’t step into each other’s lives to meddle and fix everything, but they’re always there for you. They also have great instincts. 

It’s notable for me that they seemed iffy about Nam Gyu in Part 1. While much of that was likely them being catty about him being older, old-fashioned, and kind of a dork, they recognized that Yeong wasn’t actually into him that much. Nam Gyu was outside of the culture with them, and that builds in distance. In this part, they noticed immediately that they couldn’t tell if Yeong Soo was actually queer. That is a huge sign that Yeong Soo wasn’t going to be good for Yeong, because Yeong lives his life publicly. Yeong Soo doesn’t want people to know, and as such he would never vibe with the T-aras. It’s also notable for me that Yeong Soo never got to meet the T-aras, which at least Nam Gyu did. 

Finally, this show made me sob openly when they rushed to the hospital and fought with staff to get to their friend. Only family is allowed to be in the room, but they would not let their friend go without him knowing that they were there. It’s so scary when you’re in the community because of how death stalks us, and I love this change to the story. The version of Young we get in the book is so unwell that he doesn’t think about all of these people around him, and I love this version of the story showing that he was loved. That his friends cared about him. When he flashed that heart sign to them and they answered back, I cried. I’m crying now even as I think about that moment. Queer friendship is so important to me, and I really love the way the adaptation expanded the role of the T-aras.

Anticipating Gyu-ho

I find myself feeling a small sense of dread about Gyu-ho’s entry into the story. We’ve seen two pairs of relationships in Yeong’s life fail because of compulsory heteronormativity, and I just know that seeing Yeong be unable to build something long-term with Gyu-ho on screen will devastate me. The losses and wounds Yeong has taken from all of the previous history will seep into his relationship with Gyu-ho, and it’s not going to be pretty. 

[indigomood]

Method | 메소드 (2017) dir. Pang Eun-Jin

[boys--love]

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