It may be one of the saddest testimonies of the damage done by the suppression and/or persecution of homosexuality that I have ever read.
You can read more of his story here.
monday quote: (The underline is mine.)
"I was too embarrassed to confess that I came here because I felt no sexual attraction to my wife. I couldn't explain what it was that bothered me so much, made my life so miserable in North Korea, because I didn't know until after I arrived here that I was a gay, or even what homosexuality was.
There are many homosexuals in North Korea who live a miserable life without even knowing why. What a tragedy it is to live a life without knowing who you are."
Jang Yeong-jin in South Korea
this quote is from the article'
ReplyDelete"...as a gay man growing up in the totalitarian North, where the government maintains that homosexuality does not exist because people there live with a “sound mentality and good morals.”
Sounds like republicans to me.