trigger warning: suicide, gay conversion therapy, outing
This female K-pop idol accidentally outed herself as gay during a variety show filming one day. It was a slip-up of words, but she let out that she only wants to date girls. The footage has since been wiped, but it was already common knowledge within the industry and many idols have already expressed their support or disgust towards it. Her agency had always worked hard to hide this information, but many rival companies have used it as blackmail to keep her group from making more appearances.
She had also already been admitted into therapy after a suicide attempt that her agency also covered up, saying to the press that she's in the hospital for unrelated health reasons. Now her agency is forcing her to get gay conversion therapy. So now in addition to her regular therapy, she's in this program and must also attend church regularly.
I don’t know of a girl idol that came out as gay. There is someone else who was part of the reality show called Idol School but ended up leaving due to health problems. She has come out as Bi-sexual because she posted a picture of herself kissing another girl on her Instagram account and it is Som Hye In. In one of her Instagram stories she said: “I am bisexual and I have a girlfriend now.” I saw somewhere that she had started getting hate messages all over social media and was judged pretty badly. She and her girlfriend might have split up because of this so I am not sure if they are still together now. Then again them breaking up could also be a rumor as well take this with a grain of salt.
ReplyDeleteSited Source: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/13/kpop-star-comes-out-bisexual-shares-sweet-pictures-girlfriend-som-hye/