Mark McLelland, Is There a Japane 'Gay Inty'?, Culture, Health & Sexualy, Vol. 2, No. 4, Cril Regnali: Genr and Sexual Diversy South East and East Asia (Oct. - Dec., 2000), pp. 459-472
Contents:
- JAPAN'S 'LOVE HOTELS' ACCED OF ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN
- GAY MEN AND HIV JAPAN
- HOW DO JAPAN TREAT GAY PEOPLE?
- 10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD
- JAPANE MALE GAY AND BISEXUAL INTY
JAPAN'S 'LOVE HOTELS' ACCED OF ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN
Unique aspects of Japane culture have shaped the rponse of homosexual men to HIV fectn Japan. Japan is a relatively homogeneo society that has, by and large, felt vulnerable to AIDS, viewg primarily as a Wtern phenomenon. This attu has been mon the gay muny as we … * gay men in japan *
In May this year, at the height of the ronavis’s first wave, two gay men livg together Amagasaki, wtern Japan, thought they would ease the boredom of the untry’s soft lockdown wh a vis to a love hotel, where upl pay for short stays to have rather than the reee time they had anticipated, the uple, their mid-30s, did not even get as far as the door to their room. Dpe risg awarens of LGBT rights, Japan is the only G7 untry that do not regnise same-sex marriag, and much of the untry’s multibilln-dollar love hotel dtry accepts only heterosexual Ishikawa, Japan’s first openly gay MP, timated that of 143 love hotels Tokyo’s Toshima ward, where he began his reer as an assembly member, 30 refed entry to same-sex expectatn that they will be rejected means many gay men have e to regard love hotels as off-lims, acrdg to one member of Tokyo’s LGBT muny, who told the Guardian: “Nothg dampens the prospect of a romantic eveng out more than a homophobic hotel policy. ”Akira Nishiyama, assistant executive director of the Japan Alliance for LGBT Legislatn, said hotel rejectns of same-sex upl were mon, even though is illegal unr a 2018 revisn to the hotel bs law, which stat that hotels “should not reject guts on the basis of their sexual orientatn or genr inty” the rare ocsns that ctomers report a hotel for homophobia, thori simply offer the proprietors “admistrative guidance” – a measure mpaigners say lacks legal love hotels, so named after the first of their kd – Hotel Love – opened Osaka the late 1960s, origally tered to upl sperate to pe their extend fai, who tradnally lived unr one roof, for a few hours of a cle the young populatn, the rise sgle hoeholds, and the pre-panmic boost ternatnal tourism have prompted many to unrgo image makeovers to appeal to travellers, cludg sgle guts lookg for paratively cheap and fortable a rult, the number of hotels wh an overtly sexual theme has dwdled to ls than 10, 000 recent years, pared wh around 30, 000 two s ago.
”Although some webs have started listg “gay-iendly” love hotels, Matsunaka said Japan’s refal to fully accept the LGBT muny, exemplified by the ban on same-sex marriag, ma homophobia socially acceptable.
GAY MEN AND HIV JAPAN
By sexual orientatn, 2.8 percent of those polled said they were bisexual, 1.4 percent said they qutned their sexualy, while 0.9 percent scribed themselv each as eher asexual or gay. * gay men in japan *
A Japane urt led on Wednday that the ernment's ban on gay marriage is unnstutnal, a landmark cisn that supporters hope will pave the way for marriage equaly the only G-7 natn to not fully regnize same-sex partnerships.
" Sce 2015, certa Japane municipali have issued "partnership certifit" to gay and lbian upl, which do not nfer legal stat equivalent to marriage but allow for shared rental agreements and hospal visatn rights.
" Kanako Otsuji, an opposn party member and one of Japan's few openly gay policians, said a tweet reported by The Guardian that she was "tly, tly happy" about the verdict, and urged the legislature to "liberate a proposed amendment to the civil to make same-sex marriage possible. While there is no relig proscriptn Japan for LGBTQ life, the fger-waggers and tutters bludgeon people wh the word tradn—this spe the well-documented tradn of homosexual relatnships Japane culture, pre-Meiji perd.
HOW DO JAPAN TREAT GAY PEOPLE?
Our list of 10 untri wh the Biggt Gay Populatn the World is likely to tch you by surprise as you’re gog to fd some of the most nservative untri this list as well. - All Parts * gay men in japan *
For some this might e as a surprise as Cha is not known as a untry that supports or promot topics like gay, lbian or bisexual but sce is the biggt populatn on Earth also has the hight number of gay people. Though Japan has unique cultural aspects that are different om Wtern untri, n be shown that Wtern ncepts or mols of homosexual inty are applible to a nsirable extent to Japane gay and bisexual men.
10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD
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 … * gay men in japan *
The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.
JAPANE MALE GAY AND BISEXUAL INTY
The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years. However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn.