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THE GAY TEEN-BOY ROMANCE COMIC BELOVED BY WOMEN JAPAN

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Jun (Fuju Kam) is a good-lookg high school stunt wh an awful secret: He’s gay, and havg an affair wh a married man. Kooky classmate Sae (Anna Yamada) has a secret of her own: She’s addicted to BL (boys’ love) manga, a homoerotic genre aimed at female two thgs absolutely aren’t the same, but they’re treated that way Shogo Kano’s “What She Lik..., ” a well-tentned but spectacularly tone-af drama that shows how far mastream Japane cema is still laggg s pictn of LGBTQ of the problem, of urse, is that so many films are based on BL manga, an pist genre that’s hardly the bt place to look for realistic portrayals of gay relatnships. Moto Hag's Heart of Thomas seri markets a male homosexual love story to women—and works.

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Boys' love manga are manga that feature male homosexual romance, wrten (mostly) by women, (mostly) for women.

Gay romance ics for women? The rear n be both sexual aggrsor and victim; both self and other; both gay and straight; both male and female.

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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. 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.

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The hosts, particularly women and gay men, are stigmatized for what is generally seen as improper work.

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