I want to take you to a gay bar song
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Much of the Korean internet has followed the news with the terms "Itaewon" and "gay" both topping Naver and Twitter search algorithms during the week. The names leave little to the imagination, yet those who are fans of alliteration will no doubt enjoy them. Last night's MBC evening television news spent the first 15 minutes covering the outbreak and filled South Korean television screens with footage of the two parallel Itaewon streets known colloquially as "Hooker Hill" and "Homo Hill". Amid all the talk elsewhere, it's important (I think) to consider how the children feel when they see this latest rise in cases knowing that the youngsters will be sent to school from next Wednesday in staggered return dates. Psychologically as well, it's going to be difficult for parents and young children who have been told schools are opening again soon. It's a notable setback considering the country started the week in high spirits following days of no domestic infections. On Saturday, it was reported that 40 new Covid-19 cases had been detected as a result of the recent nightclub cluster in Itaewon. It would be wrong to impose cultural values on to another sovereign nation or seek to understand the Korean situation through a specifically Eurocentric lens, would it not? But they were represented in the media and then legally following the passing of the 2013 same-sex marriage law.īut for a post-authoritarian democracy like Korea, the perspective is naturally very different. Of course, many did no doubt suffer, both publically and in silence.
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Yet they were not successful or known simply because of their sexuality instead, they were respected and held positions of prominence because of their abilities. The television screen, the radio, newspaper columns, and award shows were always filled with "gay" celebrities: Ian McKellen, Stephen Fry, Graham Norton, Samantha Fox, George Michael, Kenneth Williams, Sue Perkins, Tom Daley and innumerable others. Growing up in the U.K., being gay seemingly wasn't really that much of a defining factor for success or failure. Their minds must be doing cartwheels trying to parse this cognitive dissonance.Īdmittedly, it's a little bit strange for me. Spare a thought for those that want to blame gay people for the latest outbreak but then, in the same breath, assert that there are no gay people in South Korea. Here in South Korea, in the public eye at least, there is the country's "top gay", and then everyone after that is normally meant to stay quiet. Different countries take different cultural paths and different peoples have different value systems. Despite struggling with his own sexuality during his life, the "flamboyant" singer (a media euphemism if ever there were one) came out as gay in a Penthouse interview in 1995.īut we're not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy. I'm sure the late, great, Little Richard who passed away yesterday would have enjoyed it too. It's a good song, has a cracking riff, and doesn't take itself too seriously. I've always been a big fan of Detroit's Electric Six, and their 2003 hit has been going round my head every time I've turned on the news this past couple of days.