Organizers Announce that Seoul Queer Culture Festival Will Happen on July 1st in Seoul

The Seoul Queer Culture Festival will go on as planned this year, but in Seoul’s Euljiro neighborhood:

This year’s Seoul Queer Culture Festival (SQCF) will be held as scheduled on July 1 in downtown Seoul’s Euljiro area due to the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s disapproval of its event taking place at Seoul Plaza, according to the festival organizer, Wednesday.

“The (festival’s) use of Seoul Plaza was disapproved by the discriminatory administration of the Seoul Metropolitan Government,” Yang Sun-woo, chairperson of the SQCF organizing committee, said during a press conference in Seoul, Wednesday. “The 24th SQCF and parade will be held in the Euljiro 2-ga area.”

The SQCF, which was launched in 2000 with around 50 participants in the capital’s northeastern Daehangno area, grew in size over the years, eventually settling in Seoul Plaza in 2015, one of the biggest public squares in the capital. This will be the first edition of the event to not be held there since 2015 except for the two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as the city government rejected the committee’s request to use the city square in favor of a youth concert by the Christian Television System (CTS) Culture Foundation instead. 

In response, the committee filed a notice of assembly for the Euljiro area to secure an alternative venue. One month prior to the event, 64 activists and supporters took turns lining up at three police stations in the jurisdiction of the locations for 89 hours to receive police authorization for use of the public space. As permission is granted on a first-come, first-serve basis, they had to compete with Christian activists also lining up to book the same spaces in order to deny them a venue, according to Yang. 

Korea Times

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ChickenHead
ChickenHead
1 year ago

I am tempted to go dressed like a woman.

I am thinking Pink Flamingos.

The question is:

Will this be satire or will I be adopting the lifestyle for the day?

Only I will know.

I have a feeling I would feel more empathy and acceptance than any other venue I can imagine.

Especially if I don’t bring a gun.

Korean Man
Korean Man
1 year ago

Chickenhead is a closet homosexual?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
1 year ago

Silly Korea Man thinks dressing as a woman makes you homosexual.

You probably think the T belongs on the LGBQ flag.

setnaffa
setnaffa
1 year ago

It’s really amazing how many people around the world support the “Let’s Get Biden To Quit” celebrations.

Especially considering he got more votes than SCOAMF.

Truly amazing.

Korean Man
Korean Man
1 year ago

Silly Korea Man thinks dressing as a woman makes you homosexual.

You probably think the T belongs on the LGBQ flag.

Hey, you’re the expert practitioner, Chickenhead. I wouldn’t know much about this.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
1 year ago

“I wouldn’t know much about this.”

Bingo.

Now say that after everything you comment on.

setnaffa
setnaffa
1 year ago

So the chinabot outs itself as incel. We already knew that.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
1 year ago

I am very pro-LGBTQ!

At least the one that means…

…wait for it…

Let’s Get Biden To Quit

setnaffa
setnaffa
1 year ago

While the Bible states these “alternate lifestyles” are wrong, it doesn’t say it’s my job to do more than spread the Gospel and pray for folks to be saved. We’re all sinners, and no sin is worse than any other.

The thing is though, the recently increased assault on the innocence of children has a lot of folks kinda angry.

I don’t think they understand the type of “scat storm” they have started. And likely none of us will enjoy the process or the results.

We’re even seeing major corporations learning from the Bud Light fiasco…

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