Listen "The Straight Gaze on Gay Flower Boys - Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies by Jungmin Kwon"
Episode Synopsis
Season 4 Episode 5
Radhika and K^2 from the Gogo Gayo! Podcast join us to discuss the book STRAIGHT KOREAN FEMALE FANS AND THEIR GAY FANTASIES by Jungmin Kwon.
Whether or not a K-pop idol is actually gay, there is no shortage of fan content where they are imagined to be gay, and many straight women love this! Be it fan fiction, fan art, fan service, or eyebrow-raising choreo, straight women love to consume queer or queer-coded content when it comes to their idols!
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LINKS:
GoGo Gayo! Kpop Podcast: Special Episode 2: Queerness in Kpop
[VOICE] Can Korea ever accept homosexuals? [The Korea Herald]
The rise of anti-trans “radical” feminists, explained [Vox]
K-pop stars subjected to sexual objectification online [The Korea Herald]
Controversy grows over ‘real person slash’ sexualizing male K-pop idols [The Korea Herald]
Fetishising Gay Men | A Yaoi Discussion [YouTube]
Radhika and K^2 from the Gogo Gayo! Podcast join us to discuss the book STRAIGHT KOREAN FEMALE FANS AND THEIR GAY FANTASIES by Jungmin Kwon.
Whether or not a K-pop idol is actually gay, there is no shortage of fan content where they are imagined to be gay, and many straight women love this! Be it fan fiction, fan art, fan service, or eyebrow-raising choreo, straight women love to consume queer or queer-coded content when it comes to their idols!
Blog
LINKS:
GoGo Gayo! Kpop Podcast: Special Episode 2: Queerness in Kpop
[VOICE] Can Korea ever accept homosexuals? [The Korea Herald]
The rise of anti-trans “radical” feminists, explained [Vox]
K-pop stars subjected to sexual objectification online [The Korea Herald]
Controversy grows over ‘real person slash’ sexualizing male K-pop idols [The Korea Herald]
Fetishising Gay Men | A Yaoi Discussion [YouTube]
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