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SalaciousBCrumb@lemy.lol to World News@quokk.au · 2 months ago

Korean boy band member becomes first active K-pop star to come out as gay

www.nbcnews.com

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Korean boy band member becomes first active K-pop star to come out as gay

www.nbcnews.com

SalaciousBCrumb@lemy.lol to World News@quokk.au · 2 months ago
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Publicly identifying as gay is rare among active K-pop stars, whose behavior is tightly controlled by music labels and policed by fans who expect them to have wholesome images.
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    2 months ago

    Notice how the headline implies there could be more.

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      Two gay men?

      Could you imagine?

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        My god. Exponential growth.

        Soon it’ll be four gay men. Then Eight. Then Sixteen!

        Damn you Rice on a Chessboard problem!

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        Maybe more

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      First because no one has ever done it before.

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        Sounds like they are trying to infer.

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          Sounds like you are.

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            Nope just reading between the lines. That kinda speech is reserved for world records. It strikes me as unusual to use it this way.

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      First to come out as.

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        There’s no reason to use first.

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          That is literally the meaning of first. Nobody has done it before. It does not necessarily imply there will be a second

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      I read it as “first to come out while still active in K-pop”, but even that seems inaccurate and there are lists of people who have come out.

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