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JAPANE MALE GAY AND BISEXUAL INTY
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JAPAN GAY TRAVEL
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Bt Gay Scene: Murray Bartlett, Las Gage 'The Whe Lot'. Bt Sp-Roastg a Gay Married Couple: Jake Weary 'Animal Kgdom'. In 1980, a gay man hid two journals above a light fixture a stiflg apartment Tokyo.
It was a vtage issue of the Japane gay magaze Barazoku, and two journals wh serene, waterlor vers, wrten between 1980 and 1984.
The diari belonged to Noriyi, a young gay man who had lived here alone, the sixth buildg of the first street of the fourth subdivisn of Nishishju nearly thirty years ago. By the 1980s, when Noriyi would have equented the gay bars and ffee clubs of Ni-chōme, the area had bee the center of gay life Tokyo, and, by extensn, Japan.
Our gay cultural tour of the famo island natn of Japan clus samurai lsons, hand-feedg er, Mt. Fuji, and a bullet tra ri! * gay japan men *
In a cy of mosts (most rtrants, most people, most vendg mach), Ni-chōme was no exceptn, boastg the hight ncentratn of gay bars, clubs, and f Asia—over 300 crammed to five square cy blocks. For young gay men like Noriyi, would have been the center of the world. 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.
By 1980, he’d found a job at a gay host bar, an eratn of the peculiar Japane stutn known as the hosts club, self a cheaper, grtier eratn of geisha culture. The hosts, particularly women and gay men, are stigmatized for what is generally seen as improper work.
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.