HELP recommandation worst representation of gay/lesbian in movie/drama

Here's a good post that might interest you: Gay Characters In Kdramas: The Good, The Bad, And The Mediocre

I can confirm that Hogu's Love handled its gay story line insensitively.  Reply 1994 is another drama that played a character's (Bing Geu Re) sexuality for laughs.

Edit: oops, meant to post this in the Korean forum. Sorry!

 Laiae:

Thank you !!

I tried to find some info on this character but what happens really to him at the end ? I understood that they gave hints at multiple times, and I tried to watch the last episode, but couldn't find anything. Does he find out he's not gay or do they just don't answer this question ?

They drew out the mystery behind his character's sexuality. Toward the end, there was a certain scene and many fans interpreted it as a hint that Bing Geu Re and Kang Joon HeeI (an openly gay character from Reply 1997) would end up together. He ended up with a girl instead.

I didn't personally think Baro's character would end up in a gay relationship, but I do think the way the scene was framed was deliberate. It seemed sort of like baiting, like the show runners were making a joke.

I don't remember the details clearly, sorry, but I do remember quite a few international fans were angry about his story line so I figured it might interest you.

I dug up the Dramabeans post about the episode. You can read the comments section and maybe that will help explain it better than I did. Sorry for the long post!

I might have an interesting example for you. The 2001 J-drama Antique, based on a manga by Fumi Yoshinaga, plays super-ambigous about pastry chef Ono's sexuality, strongly hinting that he's gay, only to explain away in the end that he's just nervous around women (b/c gay men are nervous around women, right? *facepalm*) for some BS reason having to do with his sister (I think? I honestly can't remember the reason as it's been at least 12 years since I watched it-- my first Asian drama, btw). When I first watched it I just thought, "Wow, that was a real cop-out, weird."  Then like a year later, the Antique Bakery manga was released in English and I read it and realized just what a cop-out it really was-- ***SPOILERS**** in the original manga, not only is Ono gay, he's pretty open about it and a lot of that story touches on his & Tachibana's past relationship in HS (not romantic, more one-sided), how Tachibana's behavior at the time relates to an event in his childhood, and how as an adult he regrets rejecting Ono so cruelly... So basically they wanted to adapt an award-winning manga with a gay man as one of its main characters, but changed him to be... not gay after all (don't get me wrong, they didn't suddenly make him *aggressively hetero* or something at the end, but the past relationship b/t the 2 leads is a HUGE point in the source material and they just brushed it aside for the drama-- like why did you want to adapt this story in the first place?!).

For me it was the movie Boys Love. To be honest .... The vibe I got from it was.. Weird. Kind of made me feel like all gay men are rapey and ignore feelings of others, just so they can.. Feel good in their hearts, and then everyone's depressed anyways. Tried to keep this spoiler free, but that movie took me FOREVER to finish.

And I am still watching it. Just can't do it in one go. Ahaha.