Bain, a member of the K-pop boy band Just B, has publicly come out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 23-year-old opened up about his sexuality during a concert in Los Angeles\u2014a rare move in the high-pressure Korean music industry, where artists are often extremely cautious about revealing their private lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m proud to be part of the LGBTQ+ community as a gay man,\u201d Bain said during his solo performance. Videos shared on social media showed the crowd erupting in loud cheers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo everyone who is part of the LGBTQ+ community, or still seeking to understand it, this is for you. You are seen, you are loved, and you were born this way,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Korean media outlet News1<\/em>, Bain is the first male K-pop star to publicly come out. Following Tuesday\u2019s concert, Bain\u2019s bandmate Siwoo posted a supportive message on a fan platform: \u201cI was watching from backstage and cried too. I cried even more because I knew how hard it was for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bain, a member of the K-pop boy band Just B, has publicly come out. The 23-year-old opened up about his sexuality during a concert in Los Angeles\u2014a rare move in the high-pressure Korean music industry, where artists are often extremely cautious about revealing their private lives. \u201cI\u2019m proud to be part of the LGBTQ+ community […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":527826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"pays":[114],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-527825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"pays-world"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527825"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=527825"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=527825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}