Gay Japan | LGBTQ+ Travel Gui, Japan Gay Rights & Safety Tips

Contents:

• JAPAN GAY TRAVEL
• 15 GAY CAM WEBS: THE TOP GAY CAMS FOR FREE OR PREMIUM SHOWS
• WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• HARD GAY
• THE POPULARY OF GAY MANGA JAPAN: WHAT ARE ‘BARA’ AND ‘YAOI’ AND WHO ARE S FANS?
• JAPAN’S SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE IS SOARG. BUT CAN IT BEE LAW?
• GAY ASIAN TEEN BOYS FUCKG

JAPAN GAY TRAVEL

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Whether or not you are certa programs, AJET (Associatn for Japan Exchange and Teachg) has Facebook groups open to anyone, and sometim even has onle rmatn about queer life your area (such as Hokkaido, where JETs created an entire PDF about their gay muny).

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Rints range om outrageoly out-there, alien, and genr-bent to culturally tradnal and polilly nservative (though 's worth notg that the past few years have seen LGBTQ activists elected to ernment offic cludg Kanako Otsuji, the first openly gay member of the Hoe of Reprentativ, and 2019, Taiga Ishikawa to Japan's Hoe of Councillors). To w, some of the most popular genr of manga and anime are gay-themed "yaoi" and "BL" (short for "boylove") romanc, which sell like gangbters among Japane femal and have spired dozens of live-actn movi the same ve. A 10 or 15-mute walk om btlg Shju Statn brgs you to a quieter, more rintial feelg sectn of the cy lled Shju Ni-chome, which is home to at least a hundred LGBTQ bars and clubs, a sna plex, and gay-centric shops brimmg wh clothg, accsori, paraphernalia, and adult goods.

Queer men n also get the si sop on Tokyo gay life, and possibly make a iend (or more), via the app 9Monsters: s chat functn nveniently to translat English to Japane and vice versa, and there's a b of Pokemon cutens to the way assigns a kd of creature (or Monster) to the er and the type of guy they seem to like. GaijPot Travel, a webse for English-speakg expats (and would-be expats, also featur a helpful page of Tokyo LGBTQ plac to check out, om f to nightlife, pl Japane gay bar etiquette and other helpful cultural hts. Kick thgs off wh the misleadgly named New Sazae, which is actually Tokyo's olst gay bar— opened 1966—and pays plenty of homage to s past wh s r and "funky dis" and soul mic nights.

Ined, homo manga, or yaoi, is dited to love stori between men and are ually wrten by and for heterosexual women; the stori are seen as a reassurg sexualy that exclus the women om their njugal duti.

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To get back to the general ia of a non-homophobic atmosphere Japan, the safety felt by any dividual livg or travelg Japan is also appreciated by homosexuals (or any other sexual or genr inty).

From Vis Gay Osaka’s betiful promotnal vio, to Osaka Conventn & Tourism Bure's recently lnched a seri of experienc that visors n enjoy the pany of geo Drag Queens, Osaka has somethg for everyone. 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.

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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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However, if you’re lookg for ee gay webm chat rooms, then you’re out of luck wh Camera Y, this is one of those gay m s that allow open registratn, but the feature is on nearly all webm s—gay or otherwise.

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So, I was taken aback when I was missned later to wre a feature about 2-Chome Tokyo's Shju district and found one of the world's nst and most diverse ncentratn of gay bars and clubs: roughly 300 bs squeezed to a uple of blocks, cludg sex shops and waterg hol terg to a wi array of tast -- known as kei (specialty). Unlike many other untri, Japan did not have an anti-sodomy law (sce the enforcement of the old Penal Co 1882, ) nor did have what Mark McLelland, thor of "Homosexualy Morn Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Realti" lled the "anti-homosexual rage" of many Christian cultur, the lethal fuel for homophobia and gay-bashg. Though tated by the ual agoni of personal inty and need for secrecy, gays and lbians Japan didn't suffer the same outright reprsn as other parts of the world (Bra's anti-sodomy law was not repealed until 1967).

While Japan has been paratively laidback about s sexual preferenc, however, has also lacked the polil and social mpaigng that has helped transform the liv of homosexuals elsewhere. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

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“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

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The late rapper’s rerd label released one of his albums dubbed “Grandsos” last week, and this week there’s a viral vio of Kg Von admtg to the police officers that he was gay, and social media is gog nuts. Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.

It is the only member of the Group of 7 natns that has not legalized same-sex month, the Japane Parliament passed a bill that outlawed “unfair discrimatn” and promoted “unrstandg” of gay and transgenr people, a measure that rights advot emed sufficient and watered down om a bill submted natn’s urts have been more sympathetic to gay and transgenr rights. Ne stat have laws banng transgenr people om g bathrooms or other facili that align wh their genr inty at least some settgs, acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, a thk liberatns over the bill promotg unrstandg of gay and transgenr people the Diet, as Japan’s Parliament is known, nservative policians raised ncerns that the law might enable men to barge to women’s bathrooms and asslt Tuday after the cisn was released, some nservativ objected. Activists said that the Supreme Court cisn uld help nudge other pani and lol ernments to change their own l erng the e of rtrooms by transgenr lg uld help “lol ernments to make their own policy or their own ordanc, and many pani will follow the judgment, ” said Gon Matsunaka, a director and adviser to Pri Hoe Tokyo, a support center for the gay and transgenr muny.

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And this month, Thailand edged closer to beg the first place Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex unns when lawmakers passed four different bills aimg to provi greater rights to gay upl, such as the abily to adopt children and manage assets jotly.

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While the topics vered Japane anime and manga are seemgly endls, if recent hs like "Yuri on Ice" (2016), or "My Brother’s Hband" (2014-2017) are any ditn, gay and homoerotic relatnships fill an extremely popular niche manga plotl. Among Wtern rears, yaoi tends to nnote BL works that have more explic scen, while shonen’ai is still sometim ed to refer to tamer gay manga seri which you watch an entire seri only for the ma uple to kiss. His fay and -workers do not know he is gay, and he hop — at least for now — to keep that way, fearg discrimatn his uple’s story epomiz the ntradictns that shape the liv of gay people across Japan.

Gay people face overwhelmg prsure to nform to the silent, stiflg norms of a society which many parents and workers are still unfortable wh the ia of their own children and lleagu beg gay. Suga speculated that regnizg same-sex marriage uld e Japan to llapse as fac a growg populatn remarks were wily publicized, raisg awarens of discrimatn agast gay people, said Alexanr Dmrenko, a Canadian lawyer and rint of Tokyo who has been a proment advote of same-sex marriage. “boom, ” Kazuya Kawaguchi, a soclogy profsor at Hiroshima Shudo Universy, poted to two televisn dramas featurg the liv of gay men — “Ossan’s Love” and “What Did You Eat Yterday?

Sixty-seven anizatns have signed on to the statement, but so far only a handful have been Japane firms, cludg Panasonic and the buildg materials manufacturer domtic media verage of changg norms abroad has “ntributed to a huge amount of discsn here, very few people the Japane rporate workplace or fay suatns feel fortable g out, ” said Lrence Bat, 63, who beme one of the few openly gay directors of a major Japane pany last year when he was appoted to Panasonic’s board.