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Omona's pick: Happy Pride Month Playlist!!!!!

Maman - Obvious Story
From what I could gather, she used to be a trainee at SM ent. but debuted under Jerry Ent.
During an interview she came out, which led to her being forced to leave her label.

Holland - Neverland

HARISU - Foxy Lady

MERCURY - Don't stop

Lady - Attention
K-pop first transgender group

Mad Clown - Love is a dog from hell (Feat. SURAN)

K.will - Please don't...

Kim Heechul, Min Kyung-hoon - Sweet Dream

Baek JiYoung - I Won't Love Again

Suran - Sad Pain

Sistar - One more Day

After School - Because of You

Sweet revenge - Cry to your heart's content

Red Velvet - Wish Tree

Baby soul & yoo jia - she's a flirt

ANDA - Touch
I think people have voiced concern about this one being baiting, just tell me and I'll remove it

HYUKOH - LOVE YA!

Planet Shiver - Rainbow (feat. Crush)

10cm - HELP

Glam - Party

The followings are open to interpretation
Song Ji Eun - Don't Look At Me Like That

Nell - The day Before
TW for suicide

OP's note: As I mentionned previously I'm am not part of the LGBT+ community, I do not wish to invade anyone's space.
If there's anything wrong with the post just let me know and I will correct it immediatly or delete the post if necessary.

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my addition would be Nine Muses' Sleepless Night (tw for overdose/suicide):

which appears to show a depressed Minah spending her night reminiscing on her previous relationships (played by the other namyu members, who also seem to be reminicing about her) by looking through the gifts that she received from them or gave to her; in the morning Minah wakes up next to Sojin (who is apparently naked). It's also the only modern BB track that I've liked lmao

I have a lot of complicated feelings about some videos that make it to the 'lgbt' kpop lists; a lot of the time I'm like, wow that's really tenuous, I feel like there's only really one second of this mv that's throwaway gaybait so that the entire mv can be viewed as ~secretly pro-lgbt~ etc. Or it's like, the song explicitly talks about boys but the mv very vaguely hints at a girl/girl love story. But also I'm aware that especially with some of these older music videos, they're released in a time and place where all you could get away with was a passing moment, or the censors would catch you or you'd receive ridiculous amounts of hate. Even then, there is nowhere in the world you can release a music video with lgbt protagonists/hints without someone going 'urgh why does it have to be about ~the gays~'.

Basically I'm happy that there are these references/scenes that put an lgbt spin on these music videos, and I sure as hell don't want to shit on any country's progress and clever attempts to bypass censors in order to promote equality. I'm just a very tired bi who gets a little jaded sometimes. I guess it's kind of complicated, I don't really talk about this a lot, idk if I'm explaining myself right.

Anyway I still follow Choi Hanbit from Mercury (https://www.instagram.com/BADAHB87/) on instagram and she's so cute! Sometimes the members crop up too since they're all from the same dance academy and work together sometimes. In recent years I've realised how important it is to my being comfortable with my identity to see adult lgbt folks living their lives and existing so I enjoy being able to incorporate a korean celeb into that!

A few of these like 'LOVE YA!' and 'Rainbow' are more about love and acceptance in general and feature LGBT+ elements as examples (and not somethign centric to the story)
'Help' is more about hardship one may face in life (including the reaction to being homosexual)

If any of these make you uncomfortable I'll just delete them

That's kind of what I'm saying - they're so general and with such mild 'hints' that I wouldn't include them on a playlist myself, but since so many people do, it makes me wonder if there's something that I'm missing, or if we're all just desperate for acceptance/representation so we fall for even the most unintentional queerbait. For an example, I think it's wonderful that Jieun/Yongguk/their lyricists had interracial/lgbt couples in mind for the song, don't get me wrong, but in the actual execution of the song/mv there's absolutely no reference to it. Since other songs have more explicit lyrics/video representations, even in minor ways, I feel like they could've done at least a bit more than 'oh btw this is about xyz even though it's nowhere in the mv or lyrics'. I'd never fallen for TV programmes like Sherlock or Supernatural where it's super queerbaity, even before the queerbaiting discussion started, so I think I just don't have an interest in things that aren't obvious.

I'm not telling you to remove the videos - everyone has their own standard for what representation they respond to and what degree so I would never want to step on another lgbt person's toes like that - I just kind of wanted to see if anyone else felt the same way or if I'm just stupidly picky. I kind of regret commenting to be honest I get very anxious about this kind of thing. Sorry if I'm overexplaining myself and only making my comments more confusing

No I agree with you
At first I had these under 'honorable mention' but since I'm not LGBT+ I have no place to decide what's and what's not 'enough'. I've seen many people include these in their playlist which is why I didn't differentiate them from the other songs

Your feelings are totally valid, not picky at all.

I find myself getting really annoyed by the reaallly queerbaity things like you mentioned I cannot stand Supernatural, I refuse to watch that show it just gets me so annoyed. Personally I am pretty desperate for any kind of lesbian/bi representation in Kpop (After School, Red Velvet, etc) But at the same time it also really bothers me especially with Kpop if it's blatant bait because it gets slammed with criticism for both being baity and also for being LGBT in general. Hell even then just reading a book about feminism will get you slammed like with Irene. So I usually reserve my annoyance to western media where it's more likely to be present, and kind of just deal with what I can get in Korean media.

If that makes any sense, I get what you mean though and I can see what you mean by hard to explain, I can't even figure out how to explain myself lmao

Edited 2018-06-10 17:58 (UTC)

Aw, your note is so sweet. Thank you so much for the list OP

Even though the description on yt is a bit meh, Heartattack still is my n.1 "gay" kpop video. There are som many "gay" moments in Loona TV clips too, wich makes it even better.

Doea anyone have more info on Maman btw?

Edited 2018-06-10 14:51 (UTC)

Maman was formely known as Magolpy
She debuted with Girl In Flight

At first she didn't show her face because she wanted people to judge her on her voice

I'd even add Yves' New as well!

these 2 videos also come to mind with the theme I suppose? not in the sense of LGBT relationships, but acceptance of the LGBT group?

Edited 2018-06-10 15:17 (UTC)

lol @ the after school one.. idk about some of these choices..

anyway, not an mv but this song should be part of every lgbt kpop playlist imo.

Because of You is a lesbian ANTHEM and wow K.Will brings back memories, I remember that was the song I tried to convince my gay friend to get into Kpop back in high school lmao

I love this playlist thanks so much OP <3 <3 <3

I live Nell's song and that vido is so sad, but I'm in love with it

i've forgotten about a lot of these. i loved the day before when it first came out - still do.

do any of you have any favorite songs in k-pop where some of the lyrics, rather than the music video or concept itself, either directly or subtly imply lgbt+ inclusion that get overshadowed? either because most tend to overlook reading into lyrics or it's just... super subtle? instances like that always intrigue me.

jjong's 2:34 is one of my favorite examples of that. "it’s my first time asking a guy to stay, don’t go home yet". he wrote gender neutral and tongue-in-cheek lyrics often before that point (like exo's playboy) but i always found it interesting because it was in line with him starting to openly gush over male celebrities he found attractive on blue night. either way, it's a great song that doesn't get enough recognition.

oh, wow. i didn't know he had any songs that were this explicit (as in meaning obvious not like as a rating). Gonna go listen to this right now. Maybe they get overlooked because they weren't a title track?

OP, thank you so much for this post. It helped turn a rotten day into a day of hope.

man, knowing what happened to some of the members of LADY is so damn depressing :( I still bop to that mini all these years later.

what happened? :(

I know at least one of them committed suicide. I tried looking up if it was more than one (this was over the years so I saw it when it was reported and never forgot the act, just which ones it was, ugh.) but unfortunately all my google-fu kept spitting back news about Jonghyun from SHINee which is not what I was looking for >(

One of them might have been Binu (though do not quote me on that) because she got a lot of shit back in the day with accusations that she was only trans so she could "get out of military service."

wow, this a really cool playlist op
great work and thanks for sharing

i definitely need to check out some of those

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