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annakas in anthropologist

Gay Culture In Japan

Jan 18, 2006 22:14

I found this to be very interesting.
So different from Western Gay culture.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20060117zg.htm

And for the Link Phobic the same article in here.

annakas

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sollersuk January 18 2006, 20:34:59 UTC

My first acquaintance with Japanese and gays was via ukiyo-e and the conventions for depicting gay young men.

annakas January 18 2006, 21:40:17 UTC

Interesting.
My only contact would be their shounen-ai and Yaoi animes/mangas but since these are meant mainly for women then even that could not be considered Japan's real gay culture. So this article was very interesting to read.

annakas

psykhokat January 18 2006, 21:11:54 UTC

Thank you for a very interesting article!

annakas January 18 2006, 21:38:32 UTC

You are welcome.
Someone in my friends list gave the link and after reading it my first thoughts were ohhh the antro community would be interested too because it's about cultrue. :)

And so here it came.

annakas

sutelae January 18 2006, 21:24:12 UTC

interestingly enough, the way lesbians are perceived and marginalized is an entirely different story.

annakas January 18 2006, 21:36:52 UTC

Really?
Interesting.
Could you write a little more about it.
This is the only article I have read about the differences so am not familiar with the subject.

annakas

sutelae January 18 2006, 22:37:07 UTC

Well, the problem is I'm on a bit of a time constraint tonight, and so for now I hope you don't mind, if I generalize a bit and give you some links ( ... )

my personal experience/impressions laozi January 18 2006, 22:56:39 UTC

I just got back from spending six months in Korea, and I noticed a lot of parallels there with what you and the article in the post are describing about gay/lesbian life in Japan. I went to a few gay bars in Korea and was very pleasantly surprised at the general feeling of community and "non-threateningness" at those places, but I also noticed a relative lack of places for lesbians to go. Most straight Koreans who I met did not even know that there were any gay bars in their country, and expressed surprise that I, a foreigner, had been to a few. I was also surprised (and amused) at the way straight Korean men tended to view lesbian porn as being gross rather than exciting (as opposed to most straight men that I know here in the States).

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ergo_ego January 19 2006, 08:26:06 UTC

Thanks for a really interesting article.

_boneflower_ January 20 2006, 01:03:07 UTC

That was really something, thank you. Sexuality in Japan, in general, is a really fascinating mish-mosh of things.