28 Dec 2018

Popular South Korean Video Gamer EFFECT comes out as bi-sexual

South Korean video gamer Hyeon ‘EFFECT’ Hwang, who plays on the professional Overwatch team Dallas Fuel has come out as bi-sexual.

He wrote in a tweet that ‘it is true that I am bisexual’.  This has generated significant online interest in South Korea, a country where being LGBT is still a huge taboo and where more than 200,000 people signed a petition opposing the annual Pride parade in the capital Seoul this year. South Korea has very few celebrities actively supporting the LGBT Community, with notable and important exceptions such as K-Pop star Jo Kwon’s support last month for South Korea's LGBT Community. 

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