Jan 03, 2008Quickie Link: Gay Policeman Fights Prejudice
By vanrozenheim
(South Korea) - An officer assigned to the riot police has openly declared his homosexuality and vowed to fight social prejudice against sexual minorities. On Dec. 30, Private Kim Hyun-jong (not his real name) posted an article about his homosexuality on the online riot police community Web site. He is the second policeman from the squad to have openly come out after YooJeong Min-shik identified himself as being gay and refused to finish his service term for which he was prisoned in 2006. In South Korea, men can serve in the riot police as part of their mandatory military service. In the article, Kim said that coming out was not easy, but what was more important was that he faced discrimination and insults, that should be outlawed at military camps.
