Who are Lionesses? Queer K-pop boy band who want to be the LGBTQ+ icons they wish they’d had growing up

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When Lionesses released their first song, Show Me Your Pride, in November 2021, they made history as the first openly LGBTQ+ boy band in K-pop history. Seven months and a handful of songs later, they have spent June 2022 – Pride Month – performing at various events in South Korea, including at the US and Canadian embassies. “I think it was the busiest June I’ve ever experienced in my life,” rapper Foxman says. “We had a lot of live performance schedules and we gathered often to do rehearsals for those performances. The fact that our Pride Month has been so...