WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! - QUEER STUDENTS FROM SOUTH KOREA - Google Docs

7.12.11

WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! - QUEER STUDENTS FROM SOUTH KOREA - Google Docs

Dear our friends,

Hi. We are Queer In SNU (QIS), an LGBT student group at Seoul National University. We were Korea’s first queer student alliance officially approved in college. Starting late 1990s, QIS has been leading Korean queer movements and has become an emotional shelter for queers inside and outside.

Today, we would like to let the world know about the recent and ongoing terrorism against homosexuals at SNU and the faculty who encouraged, provoked, and legitimized the behavior.

The “pro-heterosexual & anti-homosexual” campaign, especially targeted at attacking QIS, began in October 2011. Among the anti-gay campaigns was the performance of letting people throw a blue-colored ball into a red-colored hole, which symbolized sex act between men and women. This happened right next to the exhibition booth hosted by QIS during the Queer Week of SNU. It couldn’t be stopped as we couldn’t risk revealing our identity. Another was stamping our gay rights posters distributed over the campus. Each piece of the posters was stamped with an image of DNA strand, which illustrated a man and a woman in the “missionary position” (See photo below). Under the image was the question “How could your life be created?” implying that homosexuality is to be condemned.