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Contents:

• THE POPULARY OF GAY MANGA JAPAN: WHAT ARE ‘BARA’ AND ‘YAOI’ AND WHO ARE S FANS?
• OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
• CREATG GAY/BARA ILLTRATNS AND COMICS
• GAY MANGA
• TAGGAY+MALE+ICS

THE POPULARY OF GAY MANGA JAPAN: WHAT ARE ‘BARA’ AND ‘YAOI’ AND WHO ARE S FANS?

Bara is siar to Yaoi (also known as Boys’ Love or BL Japan), and picts homosexual relatnships between men. "Bara - is a Japane technil term for a genre of art and fictnal media that foc on male same-sex love ually created by gay men for a gay male dience. Bara n vary visual style and plot, but typilly featur mascule men wh varyg gre of mcle, body fat, and body hair, ak to bear culture gay culture.

- In ntrast, bara is nsired a subgenre - for gay mal - rather than on for female rears. This clus: gay, bi, trans, non-bary, aro, ace, pan, any male-intified LGBTQ+ characters.

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CREATG GAY/BARA ILLTRATNS AND COMICS

Japane ics, or manga, are replete wh same-sex pairgs – but are they actually as gay as wtern rears might. Japane ics, or manga, are replete wh same-sex pairgs – but are they actually as gay as wtern rears might terpret them to be? While LGBTQ+ reprentatn appears, at a glance, to be prolific, not all queer characters or relatnships are necsarily as herently gay as they appear, and not all “gay” material is tend for a gay rearship.

When to manga featurg same-sex stori foced on male pairgs though, there’s an add layer of plexy to navigate, so this week’s Comics Corner we’re takg a look at the differenc between some of the most mon “gay” Japane ics, or manga, genr. BL manga have typilly featured svelte, betiful men, often wh androgyno featur – although recent years ’s bee slightly more mon to fd more diverse body typ – and stori that tend towards homoeroticism and emotnal drama than anythg overtly pornographic.

GAY MANGA

Yaoi is perhaps the most monly heard term when to gay manga the wt, to the extent that “yaoi” is almost an umbrella term self.

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Wrers cludg Graham Kolbes, one of the thors of Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, have posed that part of the appeal of yaoi to women, particularly Japan, is that often picts sex whout patriarchal trappgs. If yaoi is gay ntent by and for straight women, bara is broadly s oppose – gay manga by and for gay men.

However, the word “bara” lerally means “rose”, and is somethg of a slur – ’s ak to llg a gay man a “pansy” English. The term beme popular among wtern rears due to a misunrstandg of “bara” beg applied to gay art posted the early msage board days of the ter, and s age is ntroversial amongst many gay creators Japan. One of the most ternatnally renowned gay manga thors, Gengoroh Tagame, has said that he “personally hate[s] the scriptn ‘bara’ ics, bee ’s accurate and a false reprentatn”, but that “seeg ed as a way to scribe jt the ntent mak apparent that ’s very nvenient for talkg about art that is lked by characters that are mcle-y, huge, and hairy, vers more feme theme of willowy, romantic figur.

Sadly, whether due to s pornographic ntent or the fact that ’s explicly targeted at a gay male dience, very ltle bara manga is officially available English.

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In Japan, “gei komi” – rived om the English “gay ics” – is the preferred term for manga by gay creators for a gay dience, as opposed to “bara”. Tagame is, aga, one of the most notable here, wh his My Brother’s Hband explorg culture clash and fay dynamics, while Okura’s I Thk Our Son is Gay follows a mother supportg her young son, who isn’t que ready to e out himself jt yet.

Tl to check out: My Brother’s Hband, I Thk Our Son is Gay.

Aga, this is a far om five breakdown of the variety and pth of gay manga – the field is full of tl and creators that blur the l between any or all of the above, and there are further subgenr and nich such as tanbi, which add more plexy to fns and reprentatns. Still, this should help newers to gay manga intify some of the key differenc the field – happy readg! Comics Corner is origally published on our sister se, Gaymg Magaze.