Actor Abraham Lim and other cast members of the Broadway musical “KPOP” will be celebrating the LGBTQ+ community with a “Love Songs for Pride” benefit concert in New York City.
Lim, who previously starred in Netflix’s “Clickbait” (2021) and Amazon Prime’s “The Boys” (2019), has organized a night of love songs from the AAPI community to the LGBTQ+ community “as a symbol of allyship and solidarity.”
Lim, who moved from South Korea to the U.S. with his parents at the age of 3, said he has seen a lot of ignorance and intolerance within the AAPI community toward the LGBTQ+ community. This motivated him to create a safe space that celebrates and uplifts the LGBTQ+ community.
“There is still very much that stigma within our community,” Lim tells NextShark. “There is still a certain sense of discrimination from the AAPI community against the LGBTQ+ community, particularly within immigrant families. I see it within pockets of our community, and it’s something that really disturbs me. It’s something I really wish would change. The more we can embrace each other, that just makes for a better world.”
The benefit concert will include five sets and five different artists, including Lim, who will be singing an original song and two covers.
Lim shares with NextShark that he took a leap of faith after graduating from college to pursue his dreams.
“I was really on that road that was designed by my parents to become a lawyer,” he says. “I was very much immersed in the world of academia. I took the LSAT and got into NYU law school, then basically took that admission letter and put it in the paper shredder in front of my mom.”
Lim asked his mother to give him a year to explore the…
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