Chingusai has posted a great newsletter on homosexuality in Korea in the 1950s and 1960s, a period where little has been written in English on same-sex attraction in Korea. The article is divided into five sections, which explore the ways homosexuality was portrayed the news. The titles of each section give a taste of the article, but unfortunately, an article of this length will take me an ungodly amount of time to translate. I will aim to translate it section by section, post the translations and add hyperlinks below.
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1. Homosexuality: "Mental Disease", "Special Environment", "Sexual Murder"
2. Determination of Minority-ness and Normalization of Masculinity
3. Not Sex but Lover's Suicide: Homosexuality Buried in What Appears to be Abnormal Dating
4. Taboo: the State and Disappearing People
5. Dating Until Dating Could Be
Note, I am a very slow translator... I'll aim to get one section done each week. ㅋㅋ
Donga Ilbo: Scandalous Murder Case Involving Those of the Same Sex
2. Determination of Minority-ness and Normalization of Masculinity
3. Not Sex but Lover's Suicide: Homosexuality Buried in What Appears to be Abnormal Dating
4. Taboo: the State and Disappearing People
5. Dating Until Dating Could Be
Note, I am a very slow translator... I'll aim to get one section done each week. ㅋㅋ