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Contents:

• SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
• THE 10 BEST TOKYO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TOKYO
• JAPóN LGTBIQ+: SHJU NI-CHOME, LA ZONA GAY Y LGTB IENDLY TOK
• TOKYO GAY SNAS
• JAPAN GAY TRAVEL

SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. ” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.

He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor.

“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.

THE 10 BEST TOKYO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TOKYO

” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.

A prevly anonymo IRS whistleblower ttifyg about an vtigatn to Hunter Bin me forward Wednday, intifyg as a gay Democrat who wanted to do the “right thg. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

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The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

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Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Several ‘urisen’ parlours operate Tokyo’s 2-chome gay district offerg prostutn, the subject of a new, award-wng documentary. Photo: Connie Kurtew Although technilly not illegal, gay prostutn remas cloaked secrecy, and a new film reveals the ‘boys’ themselv often have no ia about the health risks they are takg Published: 12:33pm, 7 Jan, 2018 Updated: 12:32pm, 7 Jan, 2018 Several ‘urisen’ parlours operate Tokyo’s 2-chome gay district offerg prostutn, the subject of a new, award-wng documentary.

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15 plac sorted by traveler favorDner Theaters • Gay BarsWhat travelers are saygMiguelLos Angel, CA26 ntributnsExplorg the area I ma up my list and we had the Mcle Bar Black Nu on our list, the staff is very iendly and we had a nice eveng wh them and the other ctomers even if we don’t speak Japane, we drk, we sg and left happy! MiguelLos Angel, CA26 ntributnsEagle is a pretty ol bar the gay block at Shju, the staff is very iendly and sce s a place wh a lot of ternatnal visors they speak English!

The lg is fal and nnot be has fallen behd s global peers regnizg gay and transgenr rights. It is the only member of the Group of 7 natns that has not legalized same-sex month, the Japane Parliament passed a bill that outlawed “unfair discrimatn” and promoted “unrstandg” of gay and transgenr people, a measure that rights advot emed sufficient and watered down om a bill submted natn’s urts have been more sympathetic to gay and transgenr rights.

Ne stat have laws banng transgenr people om g bathrooms or other facili that align wh their genr inty at least some settgs, acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, a thk liberatns over the bill promotg unrstandg of gay and transgenr people the Diet, as Japan’s Parliament is known, nservative policians raised ncerns that the law might enable men to barge to women’s bathrooms and asslt Tuday after the cisn was released, some nservativ objected.

”She said pendg on how the language and spe of the cisn is terpreted, the se uld affect other rights for gay and transgenr people. Activists said that the Supreme Court cisn uld help nudge other pani and lol ernments to change their own l erng the e of rtrooms by transgenr lg uld help “lol ernments to make their own policy or their own ordanc, and many pani will follow the judgment, ” said Gon Matsunaka, a director and adviser to Pri Hoe Tokyo, a support center for the gay and transgenr muny. Tok tiene una zona gay y LGBT-iendly muy terante y dámi ubida en el área Ni-chome Shju, una las múltipl divisn te icóni y enorme barr la pal área Shju Ni-chome se encuentra a apenas unos 15 mutos andando s la tación central Shju, la más ncurrida l mundo.

El Ni-chome, no obstante, una zona mas bien múscula en tamaño si lo paramos n las zonas gay otras grans urb (y pecialmente si hablamos Tok), nque ha crecido nsirablemente en la última déda. Rerriendo el Ni-chome ShjuExperiencias y guías en TokDistesRtrant y fésSnasLos love hotel y la homofobia explícaEl avance Japón o país en los rechos LGBTIQ+Planifi tu viaje a JapónCómo llegar a Shju Ni-chomeMapa turísti l barr Shju. Por suerte, Japón un país en el que la homosexualidad no tá penalizada; así, cualquier visante LGBTIQ+ pue pasear tranquilamente por cualquier ciudad nipona s miedo… pero n ciertos matic.

Japón, a su vez, no tiene una historia stada za homosexual (al ntrar que en ciertos país ropeos… don lamentablemente aún sigue pasando o en Ria o Chechenia). De hecho, las últimas encutas en el país din que la aceptación la homosexualidad un hecho facto salvo en generacn más antiguas. De hecho, en la historia japona, las relacn homosexual se veían n cierta normalidad, o por ejemplo las relacn entre samuráis y s aprendic, que todavía pomos ver hoy en día en multud iyo-e, por ejemplo.

S embargo, n la llegada los occintal a fal l siglo XIX y el fo en la faia nuclear, Japón fue mbiando y adaptando su visión sobre las relacn homosexual.

Asimismo, hay que tener en cuenta que gay-iendly no signifi LGBT-iendly: o en tantos otros país, la lucha por los rechos los homosexual tiene muchas pas en las que hay que dagar y profundizar, o la visibilidad lésbi, trans, bisexual y un largo etcétera la cultura queer y género no bar. S entrar en todos y da uno los sos en talle, pu daría para vars artículos, se pue cir que, salvando los matic arriba mencnados los múltipl gpos que entran en cena cuando cimos LGBTIQ+ (Lbianas, gays, transexual, bisexual, tersexual, queer y más), Japón avanza hacia un molo aceptación morada-alta que obviamente mejora forma stancial en grans ciudas n una prencia más ri variedad geográfi o pue ser Tok u Osaka.

Pero aún tiene mucho que mejorar en las zonas más ral y en todos los gpos que se salen l tereotipo l hombre homosexual.

Rerriendo el Ni-chome ShjuEn el Ni-chome ( así o nos referiremos a partir ahora a la zona gay Tok) la variedad lol para disutar la vida gay muy variada. A menos que tengamos amigos que nozn bien la zona, lo más normal que no los visemos y, así, puen nsirarse el Japón gay oculto.