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VTAGE GAY FICTN
Partgs at Dawn: An Anthology of Japane Gay Lerature (12th - 20th Century). Great Mirrors Shattered: Homosexualy, Orientalism, and Japan.
Gay Tal of the Samurai. bisexual, gay, genr, homosexual, j-l, japan, japane-lerature, lbian, lgbt, lgbtqia, nb, nonbary, queer, quiltbag, transgenr. Notably, he aimed his stori at the “women-haters” (onna-girai), men who were only terted other men, rather than at the “nnoissrs of boys” (shoj-zi) who pursued both men and women, suggtg the early emergence of an exclively homosexual subculture.
Her work helped found the genre that we now ll “Boys’ Love” (or BL for short), prised of homoerotic stori about men created by and for women.
GAY JAPAN, EROTIC FICTN AND THE IMPERIAL IMAGATN
Although some queer activists have cricized her for glossg over the reali of homophobia, her novels ptured the imagatn of women seekg refuge om heteronormative adulthood and rema popular to this day. Mutsuo Takahashi is one of the most prolific and wily-translated gay wrers om Japan. He has garnered praise for his vivid, unabashed portrayals of gay eroticism both domtilly and ternatnally and has been praised by high profile poets such as Allen Gsberg.
LOST GAY FICTION
One thg to bear md is that the yuri (lbian) and yaoi (gay male) genr Japan are generally aimed at the oppose sex. It's so mon, fact, that there's a term for women who read yaoi (fujoshi, or rotten girls) and many manga aimed at men will often clu homoerotic subtext to appeal to them.