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The Christian churches opened up a big, fat, Supersized can of Crazy for the opening of the Pride activities at Seoul City Hall, with their noise-making activities kept very behind a wall of police, which were very good about keeping the Pride people and
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The beginning of the days pride festival these was marked by pretty sedate and friendly activities, such as this angelic violin player doing a heartfelt number in front of Seoul City Hall.
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It wasn't quite the showdown I was expecting, but there were some small, private moments of exchange about the meaning of Leviticus and Christian love between a pride supporter and an anti-pride protester holding a cross.
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Not really sure what place about a performance has in LGBT politics, but the church groups had a bunch of young women in ballet Outfits doing a performance to the Blue Danube Waltz. It didn't make any sort of logical, aesthetic sense, but it was part of a
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Making the "they're catshit crazy" twirly whirly gesture from behind the anti-anti-church people barricade.
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Crazy Eye Leader.
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Since kids don't have much of a will, especially in Korea, methinks most of the anti-festivities were orchestrated by church leaders who told the kids they would not be considered good Christians unless they came out and did their best to "stop the gays".
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A pattern wherever one goes in the world. Cowards tend to hide their faces. Reads "AIDS -- the people's blood tax."
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"Gender isn't found in one's underwear."
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Don't know what he's selling.
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Lots of messages in the queer rights march, which felt more like a county fair.
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Nice. Progress.
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A little social breathing room today.
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He's taking it THERE.
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The LGBT honor guard.
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Planting the flag. The rainbow one reads "Left Wing Youth." I'm sure the older, conservative, staunchly anti-Communist, Christian crowd here LOVED that one.
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Coming the day after the Supreme Court decision that will change the landscape of culture an politics in the United States, the US Embassy had the most kickass display at their official booth at the Korean Queer Culture Festival.
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No crazy eyes on the side of sane people, inside the main area of the Korean Queer Culture Festival.
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Although this battle started over the perceived threat of gays getting rights, especially as the tide started to turn in the States from a few years ago, which turned Korean Protestants into raving lunatics over this issue and allowed them some thing meat
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More than just a protest over right, this was an affirmation new way of being Korean and her celebration have a very different culture of openness and self-definition.
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The new culture of openness and the queering of social reality in Korea.
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Love conquers Hate.
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Tradition. "You keep using that word. I think that word..does not mean...what you think it means."
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This older virginal maiden of the pure race and people should know better. Or the dumb cadre of all-male pastors who obviously planned this Show of Virginal Purity should have, as if they were at all educated or worldly, they would know how much this disp
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The sign reads,"Let's take action against discrimination". The Church Lady here seems to be taking action against new ways to be Korean. Although she doesn't know that herself.
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Someday, after they catch up to history, and Korean extreme Protestestantism has moved on to some other issue to define itself in the face of increasing social irrelevance, these young ladies are really going to regret this day.
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Broken down into its constituent semiotic elements, this display of nationalism mixed with tradition to fill the public space of The Seoul City Hall space with as much sonic interference as possible was partially successful, yet extremely confused. Of pa
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"He (Yi Pom Suk) urged a pan-national Korean solidarity based on racial purity: “the Nation is the race and the race is the nation.”... Talk of “Racial essence” and “blood-lines”... for him was the key characteristic defining Korea, and the essential elem