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 …
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GAY MEN AND HIV JAPAN
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 * gay in japanese culture *
Samuel Perry's talk explor several works of erotic fictn published gay Japane magaz the 1970s, works which nnect qutns of imperial vlence and s legaci to the experienc of gay men and to gay male sexualy.
GAY JAPAN, EROTIC FICTN AND THE IMPERIAL IMAGATN
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He is terted broad qutns about transnatnal sexualy— so far as how Japane gay culture emerg relatn to Wtern and other non-Wtern sexuali—but also unrstandg how the legaci of WWII, specifilly, ndned the emergence of a new gay male subject the new age of perpetual warfare. While many excellent transnatnal studi of Japane gay fictn have examed how early “postwar” Japane texts draw on the whe bodi of US soldiers to nstct Japane gay sexuali, his paper turns to a later moment when Japan’s re-emergence to the Asian marketplace dilat a space which Asian bodi beg to circulate wh the currents of gay male sire, a space that is both problematic and cril for discsns of ter-Asian sexualy.
But to actually be lockg ey wh Ellen and hold her, shakg hands as she said, "I'm gay, " on natnal televisn and for the first time, as she has shared outloud that way publicly, was such a profoundly extraordary and timate gift to that moment that I will forever be grateful for. In districts like Shju Nichōme, Tokyo’s gay neighborhood, Japane and foreign talk, drk, and mgle, long-standg private bars, clubs, drag shows, and on the streets outsi nvenience stor.
Their relatnships most likely varied greatly by suatn and across time perds, but a typil nanshoku pairg rporated many dimensns: mentorship and stewardship, platonic iendship, as well as physil acts of homosexual sex.
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While historil pictns of Nobunaga and Ranma sometim fully portray them as gay lovers, we mt be reful to separate historic nanshoku and the figur there om LGBTQ issu today, and to avoid mornizg norms of that era to f our ncept of sexualy and romance.