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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.
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. (There's another Takemoto book lled Ey that's more direct s alg wh homosexualy, but unfortunately the publisher only ma available on the Sony Ebook Store, which no longer exists.
LOST GAY FICTION
6 seri by Atso Asano which featur a gay romance as part of the plot.
Crystal Boys by Pai Hsien-YungThis is nsired the first gay novel to be wrten Che. The book giv an hont and thentic look to the world of 1970s Taiwan and what gay men had to do to survive. Gentlemen Prefer Asians: Tal of Gay Indonians and Green Card Marriag by Yka Lutfi TuanakottaIn the wty personal says, an Indonian thor lv to his adjtment to Ameri.
He explor the flirtat liftyle of a gay man livg up San Francis while alg wh his past life Indonia.