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Contents:
- THE VLENT JAPANE GAY ART BY GOH MISHIMA
- THE POPULARY OF GAY MANGA JAPAN: WHAT ARE ‘BARA’ AND ‘YAOI’ AND WHO ARE S FANS?
- WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
THE VLENT JAPANE GAY ART BY GOH MISHIMA
Japane Gay Art - Goh Mishima (born 1924 as Tsuyoshi Yoshida), born Yokosa, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, was an artist and a popular figure wh t * gay japanese artists *
In districts like Shju Nichōme, Tokyo’s gay neighborhood, Japane and foreign talk, drk, and mgle, long-standg private bars, clubs, drag shows, and on the streets outsi nvenience stor. Their relatnships most likely varied greatly by suatn and across time perds, but a typil nanshoku pairg rporated many dimensns: mentorship and stewardship, platonic iendship, as well as physil acts of homosexual sex.
THE POPULARY OF GAY MANGA JAPAN: WHAT ARE ‘BARA’ AND ‘YAOI’ AND WHO ARE S FANS?
While the topics vered Japane anime and manga are seemgly endls, if recent hs like "Yuri on Ice" (2016), or "My Brother’s Hband" (2014-2017) are any ditn, gay and homoerotic relatnships fill an extremely popular niche manga plotl. But, "My Brother’s Hband" (which was was rema last year to an NHK drama) and "Yuri on… * gay japanese artists *
The practice only began to fa wh the Meiji Rtoratn the late 1800s, when scty om the Wt led to a refg of homosexualy and heterosexualy Japane society. While historil pictns of Nobunaga and Ranma sometim fully portray them as gay lovers, we mt be reful to separate historic nanshoku and the figur there om LGBTQ issu today, and to avoid mornizg norms of that era to f our ncept of sexualy and romance.
We n fer queer people have always existed, and that some practners of nanshoku—perhaps cludg Nobunaga and Ranma—might have self-intified as queer or gay if displaced to our morn time wh our morn fns, although we nnot know for sure. His 1959 film Sekishuncho, or Farewell to Sprg, picts timate and emotnal relatnships between s male characters, and is often regnized as “Japan’s first gay film. Goh Mishima (born 1924 as Tsuyoshi Yoshida), born Yokosa, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, was an artist and a popular figure wh the gay muny of Tokyo for his ntributns to gay rights and Japane gay art.
In his youth he attends the tradnal Japane schools and when he is 18 he is drafted for the army, where he has his first homoerotic experienc wh fellow soldiers.
WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
Sabu, for which he did all the ver art, was the oppose of Barazoku and displayed a mascule and sexually aggrsive attu towards male ntued to make large amounts of drawgs and beme a proment figure wh the close-kn gay muny of Tokyo. Japan isn’t a homophobic puran society by any means, but they still have a long way to go terms of visibily and equal rights for LGBTQ people. From Koda Kumi, Sho Sakurai to the Kano Sisters, the stars have played a part phg forward acceptance for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights and visibily wh Japan.