Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you.
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AM I GAY?
(Content Warng: homophobic slurs and spoilers for major plot pots throughout the Banana Fish manga, cludg discsn of rape and childhood sexual abe.
)Ask rears about their favore gay upl ics and you might get any number of rpons: Wicn and Hulkg, Batwoman and Renee Montoya, and Midnighter and Apollo, jt to name some of the heavy hters. Banana Fish is not a seri where a gay uple is ls sexual or emotnally forthg due to censorship; rather, is specifilly a slow build of the relatnship between two men learng to e together spe trma and ternalized g together is betifully picted throughout the seri the pair’s domtic life, when they move to an apartment that serv as Ash’s base of operatns throughout all the gang warfare and ernment nspiracy (this is a crime drama, after all).
” Now, there are certaly ntexts where this term uld be viewed as rctive: fay members refg to acknowledge a gay relative’s romantic partner for what they are, for stance. Callg a gay uple iends is offensive when the term is ed to flatten or ny their timacy. I am emotnally vted gay history, partially bee I have been around long enough to be openly gay across what already feel like entirely different eras.
GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS SAN FRANCIS
Ash and Eiji’s e of language mak sense given the time which was wrten (over a before gay marriage was solidified as the one queer e that an entire liberatn movement would be rced to the public eye). Not to mentn, their own ternalized homophobia may not be lved to explicly all that often, but still exists as a force on the page. It lsens over time, but we do get some exchang like this:Courty of Viz this seri full of betiful language surroundg gay love, some of the most potent at the end.
Language evolv and the specific homophob power change, but Banana Fish picts a rolve that ntu to endure: queer people livg, lovg each other as boldly and warmly for as long as they n and wh what words they n grasp om a world that would rather they weren’t able to speak at the AIPT PatreonWant to take our relatnship to the next level? The reprentatn of gay, bisexual, trans, ace, and queer men anime is a mixed bag. There has also been a ton of fetishistic yaoi that prent unfortable, homophobic stereotyp.