Meet the Mr Gay Japan 2019 falists

Contents:

• SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
• FIGHTG FOR GAY RIGHTS JAPAN
• 10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA
• GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT
• JAPANE MALE GAY AND BISEXUAL INTY
• GAY MEN AND HIV JAPAN
• GAY MALE MOVG TO JAPAN
• MEET THE MR GAY JAPAN 2019 FALISTS
• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
• GAY CHE MEN STOCK VIOS
• THE 10 BEST TOKYO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TOKYO

SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT

“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. 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. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

FIGHTG FOR GAY RIGHTS JAPAN

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

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.

10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA

“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.

” 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. 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.

GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT

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.

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. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said.

From Tsuyoshi Kanagi’s portrayal of a transgenr woman Midnight Swan to a gay lawyer’s battle wh love and self-rentment Three Stori of Love, the Japane LGBTQ films have helped shaped Japan’s morn film dtry and the untry’s attus towards LGBTQ people.

JAPANE MALE GAY AND BISEXUAL INTY

The film exam them of love, abandonment and heartbreak om three polar-oppose characters: Shomiya (Ryo Ika), a closeted gay lawyer wh a self-flicted emotnal wound, Atshi (Atshi Shohara), a bridge spector grievg his late wife and Toko (Toko Nashima), a hoewife who has an affair wh a sm artist. The bananas plot is pure mp: transvte performer Eddie (played by Peter, later the fool  Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (1985)) strik up a fierce rivalry wh another drag queen Shju Ni-chōme, Tokyo’s gay ghetto. A direct fluence on Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), Funeral Para of Ros gleefully subverts all notn of rpectabily, givg the viewer an unashamed snapshot of 1960s Japane gay subculture on the way, as queers Tokyo speak their mds to the mera.

Farewell My Concube (1993)The unrequed gay love story at the heart of Chen Kaige’s Palme d’Or-wng masterpiece is often overlooked, wh crics ncentratg their admiratn on the credibly amb spe of the film, takg over half a century of Che history. East Palace, Wt Palace (1996)Power play is a major theme of this tense drama, which a gay man is apprehend while cisg a park and spends the night a police statn unr the stern eye of the arrtg officer. Happy Together (1997)This is one of the olt gay films ever ma, a vivid and exhilaratg pictn of two men om Hong Kong – Lai (Tony Lng) and Ho (Llie Chng) – an tense on-aga-off-aga relatnship, who travel to Argenta to vis Iguazu Falls, but end up repeatg the cycle of fily and celty.

Unorthodox erotic obssn permeat the bt-known works of Nagisa Oshima, notably the ultra-ntroversial Ai no rrida (1976), wh s graphic scen of unsimulated sex, and the homoerotic atmosphere of the prison mp  Merry Christmas, Mr. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006)Gay characters appear throughout the work of Malaysian director Tsai Mg-liang, om the suicidal homosexual man  Vive l’amour (1994), the hopeful horny Japane guy cisg the cema  Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) and the father and son the bleak The River (1997).

GAY MEN AND HIV JAPAN

In his first feature ma Malaysia (his prev work was filmed Taiwan), Mg-liang regular Lee Kang-sheng stars two rol – as a atose man red for by a woman, and as a migrant worker Kuala Lumpur who is beaten up and red for by a gay Banglashi man. Though Japan has unique cultural aspects that are different om Wtern untri, n be shown that Wtern ncepts or mols of homosexual inty are applible to a nsirable extent to Japane gay and bisexual men. "But there is still some way to if all district urts clare same-sex unns nstutnal, the legalisatn of same-sex marriag is not guaranteed, as current polil momentum to change the law is "lewarm at bt", acrdg to The Japan 's nstutn, put place after the end of World War Two, f marriage as one of "mutual nsent between both sex" ernment has said this means same-sex marriage was not "foreen" at the lawyers for the platiffs said the phrasg was actually meant to prevent forced marriag, and that there is nothg the nstutn that explicly prohibs gay urt Sapporo, the pal cy of the northern Japane island of Hokkaido, is the first to give s verdict, and s lg is seen as havg signifint impact on the other urts.

Addnal reportg by Tsa might also be terted : As a gay Japane man, Kodo Nishimura, has found that Buddhism has accepted his ptn, Why this Buddhist monk also works as a make-up artistMore on this story.

As the LGBT muny ntu to fight for equal rights across the globe, here Japan small steps are beg ma towards equaly, wh same-sex partnerships now officially regnised six areas of the untry, cludg Osaka, Shibuya, Setagaya, and Naha. While spokpeople and policians are also dog their bt to give a face and voice to the muny, now there’s a short film project that’s workg at a grassroots level to openly reveal what ’s like to be a gay man Japan, and ’s currently attractg a lot of attentn onle.

GAY MALE MOVG TO JAPAN

Rather than prentg exaggerated characters wh polished or over-the-top performanc, a riture monly portrayed by gay personali on Japane televisn shows, this seri plays up the everyday awkwardns of the men onscreen.

G., mcular men, olr men, specific occupatns); G-men was found 1994 to ter to gay men who preferred "macho fantasy", as opposed to the sleeker, yaoi-spired styl popular the 1980s, and foc on "macho type" (mcular, bearish men) and gaten-kei (ガテン系, blue-llar workers).

G-men was signed to enurage steady rearship by prentg a more well-fed fantasy image, and by nng serialized, ntug manga stori (as opposed to the one-shot stori standard other gay men's magaz) whichenuraged purchase of every issue. Well, your boyiend probably knows a lot better than most of on this Fom, but Shibuya-ku recently passed the bill to acknowledge same genr upl (doei-kappu-jourei) and there's a monk Kansai who giv weddgs to gay upl and 's agast the law to discrimate gays bs scen. You seem to have 2 issu; general opns and acceptance of homosexuals and whether your boyiend will be okay wh you outg him when he has chosen to keep the relatnship a the first, acceptance is sketchy.

MEET THE MR GAY JAPAN 2019 FALISTS

Those who hold views of "gay foreigners" are ignorant, sometim 's nocent ignorance om those who have never thought about Japane beg gay (y, sounds ridiculo but the people exist) while often is an arrogant and judgmental ignorance of loose, strange, immoral foreigners, so I'm not sure that such "acceptance" of foreigners as homosexuals is really a good thg... Also, there is a lot of surface acceptance, such as girls thkg a gay pet would be fun for shoppg after watchg Amerin movi, but gets awkward for them when nonted wh aspects of homosexualy beyond the superficial someone above mentned, for an English teacher, the ma ncern about beg out will be om your clients (if Eikaiwa), stunts, and/or their parents rather than your employer. I absolutely thk is a great thg that transgenr people n have some exposure Japan but seems to me that many Japane lump gay people wh transgenr even though they are two pletely different thgs.

Although I agree is rather ridiculo that gay Japane do not ga the same acceptance as gay foreigners and I also don’t thk ’s a good thg, I thought perhaps would at least work my favour to some gree.

INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

I was a high school stunt Wtern Europe a long time homosexualy beme talked about everyone spected that the 2 guys wh different fay nam that owned---sert here the name and type of a bs-- and lived together were homosexuals... In fact, he said that beg a place where the LGBTQIA+ muny is more visible and accepted has altered his own perceptn of self, which also ma him feel like he uld fally live his life hontly and all, as Kem explaed, spe Japan beg "progrsive some aspects, " is "also still very tradnal the sense that beg gay Japan isn't as accepted" — somethg which ed Kem to feel like he had to hi beg gay for a long time. The days, wh the rise of ter datg and the greater acceptance of gay rights Japan, Ni-chōme’s role as a rare safe space for LGBT Japane has dimished, although is still the premier LGBT nightlife district the untry.

Noriyi’s ia of fun was to take dgs—ually speed, acid, or MDMA, always phemistilly scribed as “medice”—and go dancg at his favore gay dis Ni-chōme, New Sazae, which is still around today, half a century after openg 1966. That unbearable, paful erotic tensn is more or ls the staed mood of Oliver Herman’ shimmerg and sensual ary drama “Moffie, ” which is easily the bt movie about gay male reprsn sce “God’s Own Country.

GAY CHE MEN STOCK VIOS

It’s an adaptatn of a novel by French liberte and gay in Jean Ge, settlg to a French port cy where a madame played by Jeanne More ns the world, and sailors engage explic sex acts that turn vlent.

Ala Guirdie’s sexy and sry “Stranger by the Lake” has earned cricisms for nflatg homosexualy wh crimaly, but ’s hard not to be drawn to the world of a nu beach that serv as a regular cisg spot for lonely gay men. Risg star Josh O’Connor will soon steam up the tennis world Lu Guadagno’s “Challengers, ” set for a 2023 release, but he first ught the world’s eye Francis Lee’s blisterg gay farm romance om 2017.

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.”Ahn was so aaid of his parents’ reactn if he me out to them that he had a backpack and a iend on standby se he need to leave. 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. But the muny is beg visible — California now has an out Asian Amerin ngrsman and state legislators — and partyg person remas an important way to nnect, even an onle age.“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, 37.On 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 se.Some posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.

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

“If we get our face out there, then people will start takg a ltle more serly.” (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.” 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.” Duran eventually rigned om his posn as mayor, cg health reasons, after several other allegatns of sexual harassment.Miss Shu Mai, a Taiwane Amerin drag queen who hosted the K-Pop Night, relled seeg whe actors yellowface — makp that ma them look East Asian L.A.’s drag scene.

(Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) “In a time when there is anti-Asian hate and feels like the whole world is cmblg … what’s more revolutnary polilly than dancg, havg a good time and lovg one another?” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist.

On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.“I am an environment where I feel safe exprsg myself,” he said.Then, he cut the terview short.“Attentn” by NewJeans was playg, and he uldn’t rist spng around, lghg and dancg on the floor.

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!

If you are skeptil of only a one eight chance for the protagonist to be LGBTQ+ though, then jt two years later 1999, Atl gave the protagonist of a seri, which was on the verge of blossomg, a homosexual romance plotle Persona 2: Innocent S. Persona 3 then reneg on this by forbiddg gay romance optns, but then allows them aga the updated Persona 3 Portable, where the female protagonist n romance the female-prentg android Aegis, but still nothg for our male ma.

Rints range om outrageoly out-there, alien, and genr-bent to culturally tradnal and polilly nservative (though 's worth notg that the past few years have seen LGBTQ activists elected to ernment offic cludg Kanako Otsuji, the first openly gay member of the Hoe of Reprentativ, and 2019, Taiga Ishikawa to Japan's Hoe of Councillors). To w, some of the most popular genr of manga and anime are gay-themed "yaoi" and "BL" (short for "boylove") romanc, which sell like gangbters among Japane femal and have spired dozens of live-actn movi the same ve.

A 10 or 15-mute walk om btlg Shju Statn brgs you to a quieter, more rintial feelg sectn of the cy lled Shju Ni-chome, which is home to at least a hundred LGBTQ bars and clubs, a sna plex, and gay-centric shops brimmg wh clothg, accsori, paraphernalia, and adult goods. Queer men n also get the si sop on Tokyo gay life, and possibly make a iend (or more), via the app 9Monsters: s chat functn nveniently to translat English to Japane and vice versa, and there's a b of Pokemon cutens to the way assigns a kd of creature (or Monster) to the er and the type of guy they seem to like.

GaijPot Travel, a webse for English-speakg expats (and would-be expats, also featur a helpful page of Tokyo LGBTQ plac to check out, om f to nightlife, pl Japane gay bar etiquette and other helpful cultural hts.

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a woman.He said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough".He said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'".When Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3,000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance blossomed.Three years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos".He relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife."Danny Beard on Same Sex Love and MarriageDanny explor same-sex weddgs, fdg out why upl chose to get married, the challeng unrpng this cisn and what mak the wedd relatnships work.The uple said they now wanted to help people who were not as ee and strive for "equaly for everyone"."Now I'm here a safe place I want to fight for others to be able to marry who they want," Adam said."I'm so lucky but I want everyone else Sdi to marry the one they love whout facg discrimatn and persecutn." Image source, Fay photographImage ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza say they are "very proud" to have been the first same-sex uple married EnglandMore than 40,000 same-sex marriag took place between 2014 and 2020, acrdg to the Office for Natnal StatisticsPeter McGrah and David Cabreza, origally om Stland and the US, ma history when they beme the first same-sex uple to marry England on 29 March 2014.The trailblazers married jt after midnight at Islgton Town Hall. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage"."It was so sweet seeg him so happy," Mr Cabreza said.