Author
Gitzen; Timothy
Year
2023
Publisher
Helsinki University Press
Language
English
Pages
29
ISBN
978-9-52369-082-0
Last Update
18-Oct-2024
Keywords
Anthropology ; International Relations ; security-studies-discipline ; Sociology
I was sitting in the gallery of South Korea’s Constitutional Court on April 28, 2016, waiting for a ruling regarding the constitutionality of the military’s anti-sodomy clause (Article 6 of Section 92). Military service has been mandatory for all able-bodied Korean men since 1957, and there has been a version of this anti-sodomy clause in the Military Penal Code since 1962, though earlier versions appeared in the Japanese codes during their colonial rule of Korea (Lee 2010, 73).24 I gathered with queer activists earlier in the morning outside the Constitutional Court, chatting about the impending ruling and response, as they...
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