The Gay of the Samurai Remember the popular scene The Last Samurai where Ken Watanabe and Tom Cise make sweet, tenr love? You don’t? Well, perhaps if...
Contents:
- MOVIES | “TABOO,” THE GAY SAMURAI MOVIE
- TOFUGU — THE GAY OF THE SAMURAI
- WERE SAMURAI GAY? OR BISEXUAL?
- THE JAPAN INTERNATNAL GAY RUGBY SAMURAI WARRRS TAKE THE FIELD
- EP304: DO’ THE MOST (THE UNRGROUND RAILROAD, GAY SAMURAI’S, GEE FLOYD 1 YR LATER, ANNA PAQU/BIPHOBIA, SEXISM YEARBOOK PHOTOS, TSA THOMPSON/TAIKA WAI/RA ORA, SANDMAN CASTG, CENTRAL PARK KAREN)
- WERE SAMURAI GAY? OR BISEXUAL?
MOVIES | “TABOO,” THE GAY SAMURAI MOVIE
If you liked Brokeback Mounta, you will most certaly enjoy Taboo (Gohatto), or, as is popularly known, "The Gay Samurai Movie." Director Nagisa Oshima explor the brewg passn * gay samuri *
For example, there is a pretty famo book the 男色大鑑 Nanshoku Okagami, om the 15th century, (the great mirror of male love) om the very famo poet Ihara Saikaku that spoke about homosexual stori between samurais (and kabi actors and others). From wikipedia's article on Homosexualy Japan:.
to the dified system of age-stctured homosexualy known as. Anyway, the attu toward homosexualy has always been que different om the wtern world.
To better unrstand the ncept, I'll add that shudō 衆道 (which is monly translated as homosexualy) is posed by the kanji SHU wh kun readg (kun-yomi) oo. Image urty Walker Art CenterIf you liked Brokeback Mounta, you will most certaly enjoy Taboo (Gohatto), or, as is popularly known, “The Gay Samurai Movie.
TOFUGU — THE GAY OF THE SAMURAI
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Dpe the wispread homosexualy of the men the samurai un, the gay love is seen by even those who engage as stctive. How homosexualy was wispread Samurai cultureThe Art of Shunga.
WERE SAMURAI GAY? OR BISEXUAL?
The Japane Rugby Football Unn and Internatnal Gay Rugby signed a jot memorandum for the first time their rpective histori. * gay samuri *
However, a key distguishg factor samurai culture was nanshoku, homosexualy among way of adolcent boysIn Japane Shtoism and Buddhism, homosexual and heterosexual sex wasn’t owned upon. Buddhists had a ncept lled nanshoku, where a young boy entered to a homosexual relatnship wh olr monks. When the relatnship end, a lifelong bond of iendship would velop between the two former Edo Perd beme known as the goln era for wakashudo, where many thors created some of the most famo homoerotic lerary works like Denbu Monogatari (Story of a Boor) and The Great Mirror of Male Love.
Wternizatn: the end of homosexualy. Well, perhaps if the story had been more rooted realy we uld have seen that turns out, pre-morn Japan was exceptnally acceptg, even enuragg, of male homosexualy and bisexualy.
I would pot to the Japane versn of Juo-Christian anti-homosexualy beliefs and ll a day. Japan’s pre-morn society was one that not only tolerated homosexualy and bisexualy, but celebrated and even ialized . How the world did Japan go om celebratg homosexual liftyl to beg nial about LGBT issu even existg?
THE JAPAN INTERNATNAL GAY RUGBY SAMURAI WARRRS TAKE THE FIELD
Unrground Railroad, Gay Samurai’s, Gee Floyd, Anna Paqu/Biphobia, Sexism Yearbook Photos, Tsa Thompson/Tikka Wati/Ra Ora, Central Park Karen * gay samuri *
#homosexualy. TIL that Edo-era Japane samurais nsired homosexualy as honorable, and teach them virtue unlike the love of women was g a "femizg effect" and was emed a necsy.
Were Samurai gay? The story explor the homoerotic tensns between the men, as well as the nflict wh another ia (group of samurai) a way, not much happens the film, but at the same time, is fascatg om begng to end.
EP304: DO’ THE MOST (THE UNRGROUND RAILROAD, GAY SAMURAI’S, GEE FLOYD 1 YR LATER, ANNA PAQU/BIPHOBIA, SEXISM YEARBOOK PHOTOS, TSA THOMPSON/TAIKA WAI/RA ORA, SANDMAN CASTG, CENTRAL PARK KAREN)
Wh a host of distguished guts as their wns, the JRFU and Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) – a charable anizatn aimed at promotg equaly and eraditg discrimatn on grounds of sexual orientatn wh gby – signed a jot memorandum for the first time their rpective histori. Includ wh the memorandum is a protective legislature which supports gay gby players, and a robt amework signed to prevent and ter discrimatn wh the sport. Pokluda moved to Tokyo om El Paso jt over a year ago, and I was trigued to know how he found himself operatg wh Japan’s gay gby niche.
WERE SAMURAI GAY? OR BISEXUAL?
“It was difficult to fd a gby club that I uld play for after I graduated om universy, until eventually, by chance, I joed a club Dallas lled Lost Souls RFC… They said, ‘Listen we’re an all-clive club, a gay club, is that okay? Lost Souls RFC subsequently went to the Gay Rugby World Cup (also lled the Bgham Cup) Amsterdam 2018 and won the tournament s divisn, strengtheng Pokluda’s lks to the gay gby muny. “Durg the petn I met a guy om Osaka who told me that they had no gay team Tokyo yet.