Contents:
- WHAT'S SO GAY ABOUT YURI!!! ON ICE?
- GAYS IN ANIME: ROUND TWO – THE GOOD: ANOTHER INTROSPECTIVE LOOK ON THE 2016 ANIME “YURI ON ICE!!!”
WHAT'S SO GAY ABOUT YURI!!! ON ICE?
Homosexualy the Uned Stat. PRINCETON, NJ/Gallup(SOURCE) – Amerins’ support for the moral acceptabily of gay and lbian relatns has risen. Liberals were already wily acceptg of gay relatns 2006, and have remaed that way, while nservativ’ acceptance ntu to n low.
If the target dience shifts to gay men, the genre be “Bara. In 2013, they passed a “gay propaganda” law which heavily censors the distributn of rmatn ncerng the LGBTQ+ muny. Homophobia tak on new dimensns when appears two languag, when there’s the absence of the vobulary for who you are and when no one wants to talk about .
GAYS IN ANIME: ROUND TWO – THE GOOD: ANOTHER INTROSPECTIVE LOOK ON THE 2016 ANIME “YURI ON ICE!!!”
Asi om Masha Gsen, a LGBTQ+ Rsian-Amerin journalist who had to flee Rsia bee of s homophobic polics, I didn’t really know many figur (fictnal or actual) who shared my tw, seemgly opposg inti of beg queer and Slavic. On ICE, Kubo Msuro, stated that when creatg this show they tentnally signed a world whout the homophobia or other prejudic that exist our world, tweetg, “No matter what real people thk about this anime, wh s world no one is ever gog to be discrimated agast bee of what they like.
While some have cricized the lack of homophobia as unrealistic, the show’s open and lovg acceptance was a breath of h air to me. Siar to “Given, ” a show I talk about more pth my prev Gays In Anime piece, “Yuri On Ice!!! It’s not a piece of queer media about beg gay per se, but one that allows queer characters to simply exist their own plex reali.
Another crique of the show was that was unrealistic the lack of homophobic phback the two skaters would have likely received wh skatg circl bee of their relatnship.