Notes:

This fic came to me at first as a late-minute idea for Xmas. Now that Xmas is gone for a few days, it is finally finished. It didn’t progress the way I expected, to say the least. It is realer than I expected myself to write, and covered a lot of real issues that I almost feel like I’m writing an essay. Hope it doesn’t turn you off – but again, homoism is all game and fun until we are reminded that queer folks in fact exist and face many types of oppressions and discrimination. I hope this is a fun but also an educational read for anyone who made it to the end. 

Read statistics about LGBT youth here:

http://www.10mag.com/dding-dong-safe-space-for-lgbt-youths/
https://www.globalgiving.org/pfil/15426/projdoc.pdf

Read about male ions, gay workers, sauna spas here:

http://www.utopia-asia.com/seoumasa.htm
http://thegrandnarrative.com/2011/03/13/korean-host-bars-male-ion/

A good read on spa hookups as an intersect between Korean culture and queer identity:

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/06/440549964/spa-hookups-korean-parents-and-coming-out-on-screen-q-a-with-filmmaker-andrew-ah
 

Full poem of Mayakovski, the biography of Frank O’hara, and the influence he took from Mayakovski (Russian poet):

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/238460
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/frank-ohara
https://newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2015/02/12/mayakovsky-frank-ohara-and-the-intimate-yell/