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Contents:

• THE POPULARY OF GAY MANGA JAPAN: WHAT ARE ‘BARA’ AND ‘YAOI’ AND WHO ARE S FANS?
• MOSW GAY BARS
• RH, “AN ALL NEW GAY BAR” G TO SHAW, POSTS LIQUOR LICENSE PLARD
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE

THE POPULARY OF GAY MANGA JAPAN: WHAT ARE ‘BARA’ AND ‘YAOI’ AND WHO ARE S FANS?

While LGBTQ+ reprentatn appears, at a glance, to be prolific, not all queer characters or relatnships are necsarily as herently gay as they appear, and not all “gay” material is tend for a gay rearship.

When to manga featurg same-sex stori foced on male pairgs though, there’s an add layer of plexy to navigate, so this week’s Comics Corner we’re takg a look at the differenc between some of the most mon “gay” Japane ics, or manga, genr. BL manga have typilly featured svelte, betiful men, often wh androgyno featur – although recent years ’s bee slightly more mon to fd more diverse body typ – and stori that tend towards homoeroticism and emotnal drama than anythg overtly pornographic.

MOSW GAY BARS

Wrers cludg Graham Kolbes, one of the thors of Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, have posed that part of the appeal of yaoi to women, particularly Japan, is that often picts sex whout patriarchal trappgs. The term beme popular among wtern rears due to a misunrstandg of “bara” beg applied to gay art posted the early msage board days of the ter, and s age is ntroversial amongst many gay creators Japan.

One of the most ternatnally renowned gay manga thors, Gengoroh Tagame, has said that he “personally hate[s] the scriptn ‘bara’ ics, bee ’s accurate and a false reprentatn”, but that “seeg ed as a way to scribe jt the ntent mak apparent that ’s very nvenient for talkg about art that is lked by characters that are mcle-y, huge, and hairy, vers more feme theme of willowy, romantic figur.

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Sadly, whether due to s pornographic ntent or the fact that ’s explicly targeted at a gay male dience, very ltle bara manga is officially available English.

Tagame is, aga, one of the most notable here, wh his My Brother’s Hband explorg culture clash and fay dynamics, while Okura’s I Thk Our Son is Gay follows a mother supportg her young son, who isn’t que ready to e out himself jt yet. Aga, this is a far om five breakdown of the variety and pth of gay manga – the field is full of tl and creators that blur the l between any or all of the above, and there are further subgenr and nich such as tanbi, which add more plexy to fns and reprentatns. While the topics vered Japane anime and manga are seemgly endls, if recent hs like "Yuri on Ice" (2016), or "My Brother’s Hband" (2014-2017) are any ditn, gay and homoerotic relatnships fill an extremely popular niche manga plotl.

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Among Wtern rears, yaoi tends to nnote BL works that have more explic scen, while shonen’ai is still sometim ed to refer to tamer gay manga seri which you watch an entire seri only for the ma uple to kiss. ” In a 2006 article by scholar Jonathan D Macktosh, he explas that Barazoku “pneered a homo magaze genre and dtry” that helped Japane gay men feel ls isolated.

The Bara art genre featur distctively mascule appearance characters wh varyg gre of mcle, body fat, and body hair, ak to bear or bodybuildg culture, and is created primarily by gay men for a gay male dience. Today, bara is often ed flexibly as an umbrella term to scribe a wi variety of Japane and non-Japane gay media featurg mascule men, cludg wtern fan art, gay pornography, furry artwork, and numero other tegori.

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Short for barazoku, om Japane 薔薇族 (barazoku, lerally “rose tribe”), the name of Japan's first morn gay men's magaze, named after a post-World War II term for gay men. The term barazoku was once relatively more mon the Japane gay muny (the magaze Barazoku startg publitn 1971), but has long sce gone out of fashn Japan, havg been replaced by terms like ガチムチ (gachimuchi). Whereas bara typilly emphasiz mascule homoeroticism and ank explic sexual suatns, yaoi typilly emphasiz the androgyno bishonen athetic and picts emotnal romantic relatnships.

Both are homoerotic anime-style art; the difference is while yaoi is gay-male art produced by women for the nsumptn of women, bara is created by men, for men.

Bara this ntext has nothg to do wh "rose", which is what the word means the bara type of drawn pornography which exhibs very mascule-lookg and ually mcular men (often hairy) homoerotic suatns.