The event is expected to attract more than 100,000 people. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL – Seoul’s Pride parade will take place on July 1, following months of wrangling after officials rejected an application from organisers to hold it at the usual spot in front of City Hall.
Both Pride organisers and a Christian group applied to host events on July 1 at City Hall, but municipal authorities gave permission to the Christian youth concert instead, saying that it was more family-friendly, despite the fact that Pride had taken place there since 2015. “It’s going backwards – the situation doesn’t change much depending on the political regime,” said Ms Yang Sunwoo, Chair of the Seoul Queer Culture Festival Organizing Committee. “The biggest fear is still coming out. If you come out, you lose your job, you get kicked out of school, and it goes on and on. It’s hard to live as an LGBT person.”
Seoul mayor Oh Se-hoon has said publicly that he doesn’t support homosexuality. And at a June LGBTQ event in Daegu, South Korea’s fourth-largest city, Mayor Hong Joon-pyo led a group of city workers to physically block the route, arguing the roughly 1,500-participant event was inconvenient for traffic.
There are also laws in place in South Korea that actively discriminate against LGBTQ people. It’s illegal for two men in the military to have consensual sex, for example – a crime punishable by two years in prison. And unlike in other Asian cities such as Hong Kong and Tokyo, where corporations are major supporters of Pride and LGBTQ causes, most local and international companies in South Korea are careful to avoid doing the same. No major Korean conglomerates appear on the list of supporters, and Ikea is among one of the few major corporate sponsors.
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