Unique aspects of Japane culture have shaped the rponse of homosexual men to HIV fectn Japan. Japan is a relatively homogeneo society that has, by and large, felt vulnerable to AIDS, viewg primarily as a Wtern phenomenon. This attu has been mon the gay muny as we …
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- GAY MEN AND HIV JAPAN
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
- 4 SHJU GAY BARS WH A RELAXG FOREIGN-FRIENDLY VIBE
- GAY TOKYO · CY GUI
GAY MEN AND HIV JAPAN
Your gui to Tokyo's bt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr events, clubs and bars, pl LGBT life Tokyo * gay community tokyo *
Shju‘s Ni-Chome (also wrten as 2-Chome) area is the heart of Tokyo’s gay scene.
In orr to keep gay iendly, on Friday and Sunday night ladi have to brg along a gay male chaperone. A gay bar and old-school dis hub, this Tokyo stutn has been around sce 1966 and is still as popular as ever. This zy cktail bar is all about gay art.
The man behd the bar, Master Tac, is a lol legend and an in the gay art scene. Japan’s cultural norms and s attus around homosexualy are difficult to terpret.
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
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LGBTQ+ travel expert Ed Salvato shows around the gayborhood and shar his safety tips.
CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
Lnchg Thursday is a brightly lored nned vodka and soda beverage lled Gay Water that proudly displays who ’s for, stead of backg off om support for the LGBTQ+ muny like Bud Light did. * gay community tokyo *
Sexualy – homo or hetero – is nsired a private matter; It’s not flnted public displays of affectn or discsed. Bee of this, much of lol gay life is not jt hidn – ’s accsible. That said, homosexualy is legal Japan, wh small protectns for gays, lbians and even transgenr people enacted mostly on a lol level.
Japane travel provirs are also startg to regnise the gay travel market. Tokyo has hundreds of gay bars, but only a handful wele foreigners. As openly gay travelers (who ed the word hband, but didn’t hold hands public), we felt pletely fortable and wele.
Tokyo gayborhood.
4 SHJU GAY BARS WH A RELAXG FOREIGN-FRIENDLY VIBE
This is where you’ll fd the gay neighbourhood and the most ncentrated dose of queer travel Japan offers. Near the seedy red-light district is Ni-chome district, a clter of olr low-rise buildgs wh hundreds of tablishments oriented towards gay men. Dpe the hundreds of gay bars Tokyo, there are only a few optns for non-Japane speakg ctomers.
OutAsia Travel offers night tours of Shju — basilly a gay gui to brg you to two or three of the bars that wele foreigners, and generally show you around. Dancg was banned Shju’s gay clubs startg Augt of 2012, wh signs and tabl stalled on the dance floor to ter dancg.
For the most extensive and up-to-date bar, club and sna listgs, the bt reference is A prtout of their gay map is also very eful. Full-erary planng assistance: In our search for assistance and rmatn, all gay roads Tokyo led to Shtaro, the owner of OutAsia Travel.
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The manager says he has reported around 40 such cints of sexual activy between gay ctomers on the premis to police the last four to five years.
He also said the tablishment has been a public bathhoe for the past 70 years and exprsed his disappotment that the sento has now bee labelled, through the ter, as a place for gay people to meet up for sual hookups, even though sexual activy is prohibed by the management. “The signs shouldn’t be addrsed to gay people, they should be banng all public sexual acts whout any mentn of sexual preferenc. “Don’t gay people who have sex at public baths realize they’re givg their muny a bad name?