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'Sexual minorities are often invisible': meet Seoul's only LGBT mayoral candidate Vandalised campaign posters for Oh Tae-yang, an LGBTQ candidate who is standing in Seoul’s mayoral byelection in South Korea. Photograph: Office of Oh Tae-yang Vandalised campaign posters for Oh Tae-yang, an LGBTQ candidate who is standing in Seoul’s mayoral byelection in South Korea. Photograph: Office of Oh Tae-yang Oh Tae-yang was spurred to run for mayor by the deaths of high-profile LGBT figures, and has upset some in conservative South Korea Mon 5 Apr 2021 19.52 EDT One morning in late March, Oh Tae-y...

Byun See-Hoo, the first trans soldier in the South Korean military, lost a reinstatement appeal in 2020. She was found dead in her home in Cheongju, South Korea on 3 March 2021. (YouTube/Yonhap News Agency/Korea Now) The family of South Korea’s first trans soldier has vowed to continue her legal fight against the army. Byun Hee-soo was discharged from the army after undergoing gender affirmation surgery in January last year. She was a staff sergeant and tank driver in the Gyeonggi province, north of Seoul, before her dismissal. Byun then launched a landmark legal challenge against the South...