More than 100 gay bars and nightclubs are now openly operating in downtown Seoul, according to a gay rights organization.

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In 2009, Canterbury Pride complained the city was a "cultural wilderness" and one of few in England without any gay bars.

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Though rainbow flags fly outside the gay bars of the Nakwon district of downtown Seoul, participants in Gay Pride rallies have been known to wear masks to avoid identification.

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Indeed, pursuant to the compromise wrested from the senior military leadership, the order would allow serving homosexuals to visit gay bars, march in gay parades, read gay literature and display photographs of their homosexual partners.

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Held Thursday and Saturday each week, the crawl visits some of the most gay-friendly bars and clubs in the city.

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Gay and lesbian bars, clubs, support groups and websites abound.

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For example, the people who designed the original cell phone at Ericsson, none of them had any inkling that a use would be to enable gay people to hook up in bars as with Grindr.

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The Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to strike down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which bars federal recognition of gay marriage, and in n a separate case asked the high court to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage.

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