[Ghei Of The Week] 5/3/13

Look at them, their on there 2nd date.

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #133

Well...

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #132

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #131

Matsumoto Jun finally realized the mascara wasn't just for him.

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #130

When's the wedding HOMIN?

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #129

This is cool. I can't wait to see it.

Korea is set to launch its first transgender talk show.

Cable channel KBS Joy announced the news on August 23 and revealed Shin Dong Yeop and Hong Seok Cheon will serve as the show’s MC.

The new talk show, titled XY That Woman will invite real transgendered individuals, who know both the lives of men and women, to candidly share their experiences.

A weekly theme or dilemma will be featured to help facilitate the discussion.

Known for his witty remarks and quick thinking, Shin Dong Yeop will be joined as MC for the show by one of his best friends, Hong Seok Cheon, who was Korea’s first celebrity to openly admit he was gay.

Regarding his decision to join as MC, Shin Dong Yeop shared, “I’ve personally always had a great deal of interest in the human rights of those in the sexuality minority. I will do my best to break the prejudices set against transgender individuals.”

Hong Seok Cheon added, “As an individual who is also in the sexuality minority, I will talk honestly with the transgendered individuals and share my fresh and truthful stories as well.”

XY That Woman premieres on KBS Joy on September 6.

Via Arama They Didnt

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #128

When late night rolls around, Adam Van Eeckhout—a gay Korean-American who lives in the LES and works in fashion—and his friends will sometimes migrate from Hells Kitchen or Chelsea’s gay bar scenes to Koreatown’s 32nd Street for a dose of 4am karaoke and drinking/food. “All my friends are gaysians,” he shares, “and Koreatown seems pretty open and gay friendly, especially the karaoke places.”

Indeed, on any given day or night, Ktown’s many 24-hour restaurants, coffee shops, Pinkberry and karaoke joints see their share of gay folks, both Asian and otherwise. Yet lately there is something even more obviously queer going on around here. Posters for major Korean movies and pop stars depict men that are prettied-up, primped and feminized in a way that’s way beyond metrosexual.

One of these major Korean pop stars in particular, Jo Kwon, gives Johnny Weir and Lady Gaga a run for their flamboyance—he dons 7.5-inch heels and a feathers-meets-S&M wardrobe in his recent “Animal” video. The new, elaborate Sherlock photo book/CD package by boy band Shinee features homoerotic albums of the members shirtless and cuddling like horny puppies.

Despite this, South Korea represents an intensely conservative society where our love still dare not speak its name publicly. Jo Kwon’s existence is like that of Boy George in the early 1980s, with rumors of his relationship with a member of boy band U-KISS dismissed by a fabricated relationship with a female pop star and a temporary arranged “marriage” on a TV reality show. He can be as gay as he wants as long as he doesn’t say he’s gay. In fact, public displays of affection between members of these boy bands are so common that there’s a term for it: skinship.

“It’s a weird thing, because [Koreans] don’t believe in homosexuality and the girls who adore these stars are adamant they are straight,” says Jack Lee, a Korean-American who works at Marie Claire, “but I can say for a fact a few are not straight. Almost every boy band has a Lance Bass.”

Because the likes of Jo Kwon, Shinee, and this pretty-boy style are so embraced by the Korean mainstream without being deemed “gay,” actual gays can work some fierce style, sass, and essentially live out loud as long as they don’t actually say the words “I’m gay.” A Louis Vuitton bag raises not an eyebrow. Ditto for lip-synching and working Beyonce choreography. With no taunts of “fag,” gays can act as sassy as they want, bring some gender-bending realness and remain completely stealth to their peers.

But what can be done to turn accepted behavior into overall acceptance?

“Gay parties in Koreatown would be the next step,” Lee notes. “It would show people we do exist.”

And that idea might not be as far off as some might think. You can call the party “Skinship.”

Via Next Magazine 

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #127

Tego....gurl.....stop it.

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #126

Take it all in Sungmin.

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #125

Not doubt about it this week.

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #124

Jo Kwon showing all you puta's out there how it's really done! Werk!

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #122

Take several seats Takeshi.

Actor-director Takeshi “Beat” Kitano on Monday rejected accusations he made disparaging remarks about same-sex marriage on a talk show, after drawing criticism from gay rights campaigners. Kitano, whose yakuza gangster films are popular around the world, enraged activists after his comments on a popular current affairs show as guests were being asked for their opinions on U.S. President Barack Obama’s stance on gay marriage. Earlier this month, Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to openly back gay marriage, an issue that sharply divides America. “Obama supports gay marriage. You would support a marriage to an animal eventually, then,” Kitano said after being shown footage of people celebrating the U.S. president’s comments. On Monday, Kitano said: “I was only talking about people who love their pets so much that they may think of marrying them.” “There is no way I look at gay people the same as animals, let alone implying sexual relations with animals,” Kitano said, in comments relayed to AFP by one of his staff. Kitano, whose 1997 film “Hanabi” won the Golden Lion at Venice, is a regular feature on Japanese television, hosting his own weekly show.

 Via Arama They Didn't.

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #121

Double dose for this week.

Of course, Junsu...

And hooray & whoop whoop to Tokyo Disney.

Since 2007, Disney has allowed gay couples to participate in its Fairy Tale Wedding program in the United States. Tokyo Disney Resort (TDR) has not banned gay weddings, but they did have some restrictions in place. When LGBT rights activist Koyuki Higashi contacted TDR this year to inquire about holding a lesbian wedding there, officials told her that they would allow a ceremony, but would not allow both women to wear wedding dresses.

 Somebody had to dress as a woman and somebody had to dress as a man (“同性カップルの場合、一方が男性に見える格好で、もう一方が女性に見える格好であること。異性カップルに見えない装いでの結婚式はお断りしてい る”). Using her Twitter account, Higashi spread the news of this disappointing policy. In response to the negative online PR, the company that manages TDR contacted Disney’s American offices for a clarification of its gay wedding policy. It only took one week for them to reverse their decision and apologize to Higashi. Tokyo Disney will no longer require homosexual couples to dress like like heterosexual couples at its wedding ceremonies.

 (Note: Disney may be allowing these ceremonies, but gay marriage is still not legally recognized in Japan. )

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #120

Boy or girl?

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #119 (2008 Edition)

AKAME FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

[Ghei Of The Week] Off Week 3/8/12

He's too fab for words. I want to be BFF's with him!

 

Hayyyy Xiah Junsu kissing a dude. Hayyyyyyyy.

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #118

WE KNEW IT!!!! MAN LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #117

Howie D from the Backstreet Boys & Shirota Yuu.

Yeaaaaaahhh these are very...."interesting"...album covers.

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #116

ZE:A's Kwanghee...uh huhhhhhhhhhhhh

ZE:A‘s Kwanghee was reportedly seen kissing a man in public. According to a source from the entertainment industry, Kwanghee kissed another man in front of a large number of stylists and fellow idol members, one of which included Davichi‘s Kang Min Kyung. The source then went on to explain, “It was later realized that the kiss occured during a filming session. …Kwanghee kissed the male staff member in order to alleviate the pressure on Min Kyung, who was very shy about her upcoming kiss scene.” The source continued, “Kwanghee was shy at first, as he stated that it was the first time for him to make that kind of physical contact with another male, but he showed a brave attitude in carrying on the filming session.” Kwanghee is currently part of the cast on SBS’s “Kim Byung Man’s Jungle Law”, as well as MBN’s sitcom, “Vampire Idol”.

Via Omona They Didnt

[Ghei Of The Week] Week #115

Michael Stipe produces gay Korean film

Former REM frontman Michael Stipe is the executive producer behind a new short film of a gay Korean man who yearns for a family, which the director used to come out to his own parents. The short, entitled Dol, will be shown at the Sundance Film Festival this year, Indie music news site Electric Banana reports. Writer and director Andrew Ahn says he used the film to come out to his own parents, who agreed to feature in it as actors without knowing their son was gay. In the film, Nick is a gay Korean-American man living in Los Angeles’ Korean neighbourhood with his partner. When Nick attends his nephew’s dol, a traditional Korean first birthday party, he finds himself longing for a life out of reach to him. Ahn said: “I made this film to come out to my parents. I knew I wouldn’t be able to tell them, to say the words ‘I’m gay’. “So I cast my family in the film, but never told them that it was about a gay Korean-American man. The filmmaking process both distracted from and prepared me for the inevitable – that I would eventually have to show my parents the finished film.” Stipe came out in 2008, telling US magazine Spin: “I was totally open with the band and my family and my friends and certainly the people I was sleeping with. I thought it was pretty obvious. “I’d just never felt strongly enough about a particular relationship to say, ‘Yeah, he’s my boyfriend, that is what it is.’ “Now I recognise that to have public figures be very open about their sexuality helps some kid somewhere out there.”

Via Omona They Didnt