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Contents:
- GAY JAPAN, EROTIC FICTN AND THE IMPERIAL IMAGATN
- PARTGS AT DAWN : AN ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANE GAY LERATURE
GAY JAPAN, EROTIC FICTN AND THE IMPERIAL IMAGATN
Partgs at Dawn: An Anthology of Japane Gay Lerature (12th - 20th Century). Great Mirrors Shattered: Homosexualy, Orientalism, and Japan. Gay Tal of the Samurai.
PARTGS AT DAWN : AN ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANE GAY LERATURE
bisexual, gay, genr, homosexual, j-l, japan, japane-lerature, lbian, lgbt, lgbtqia, nb, nonbary, queer, quiltbag, transgenr. 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.
The practice only began to fa wh the Meiji Rtoratn the late 1800s, when scty om the Wt led to a refg of homosexualy and heterosexualy Japane society.
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.