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JAPANE MALE GAY AND BISEXUAL INTY
In 1980, a gay man hid two journals above a light fixture a stiflg apartment Tokyo. Thirty years later, an Amerin teenager disvered . * japanese gay young *
From Tsuyoshi Kanagi’s portrayal of a transgenr woman Midnight Swan to a gay lawyer’s battle wh love and self-rentment Three Stori of Love, the Japane LGBTQ films have helped shaped Japan’s morn film dtry and the untry’s attus towards LGBTQ people. The film exam them of love, abandonment and heartbreak om three polar-oppose characters: Shomiya (Ryo Ika), a closeted gay lawyer wh a self-flicted emotnal wound, Atshi (Atshi Shohara), a bridge spector grievg his late wife and Toko (Toko Nashima), a hoewife who has an affair wh a sm artist.
Much like Hashiguchi’s prev works, such as A Touch of Fever and Hh — both of which featured gay men — the film weav the lonels and agily of each character through their muted speratn.
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After a group of high school sophomor take an LGBTQ awarens urse school, the stunts grow spic of their classmat’ sexualy.
They rne at Hoe of Himiko, a nursg home found by her father for gay men.
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.
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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. 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.
Few studi have ever alt wh Japane male gay and bisexual inty. This exploratory study vtigated gay and bisexual inty through terviews of 34 Japane gay and bisexual men. Though Japan has unique cultural aspects that are different om Wtern untri, n be shown that W … * japanese gay young *
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. The days New Sazae and s effervcent, crisply drsed bar-master, Shn, who plays ‘70s and ‘80s dis for a middle-aged, not-entirely-gay crowd, have the aged grace of stutns.
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