‘Boys for Sale’: the dark world of Japan’s gay prostutn
Contents:
- THE GAY TEEN-BOY ROMANCE COMIC BELOVED BY WOMEN JAPAN
- THE BOYS OF SHJU: IS TOKYO'S GAY DISTRICT DOOMED?
THE GAY TEEN-BOY ROMANCE COMIC BELOVED BY WOMEN JAPAN
In 1980, a gay man hid two journals above a light fixture a stiflg apartment Tokyo. Thirty years later, an Amerin teenager disvered . * japan gay teens *
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THE BOYS OF SHJU: IS TOKYO'S GAY DISTRICT DOOMED?
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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. 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.
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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.
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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.