Tens of thousands attended South Korea's largest annual LGBT festival on Saturday, vowing to continue fighting for gay rights after the Seoul city government denied them a prime spot and gave it to an anti-LGBT Christian group.
The Seoul Queer Culture Festival, staged outside city hall in the nation's capital annually since 2015, except for two years during COVID-19, was instead held nearby after the"You can see a lot of hateful banners behind me as well as those that support us on our right," said Yang Sun-woo, chief organiser of the Seoul Queer Culture Festival.This year's march began hundreds of metres from city hall, surrounded by onlookers and anti-LGBT protesters.
"That we aimed to block homosexuality, as some say, is not true, and this event was to give courage and hope to young people in this tough time,” said Cho Jong Yun, managing director at CTS.The LGBT event's organisers estimated some 35,000 people joined the march. Kim Kyu Jin and Kim Saeyeon, a lesbian couple who married abroad and recently announced a pregnancy, one the first openly LGBT South Korean couples to do so, joined Saturday's march.
Nicole Kim, a 23-year-old who identifies as asexual, said the Pride event was a rare opportunity for queer people to celebrate themselves in South Korea.
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