Contents:
THE FAMO, NATNALIST AND GAY, JAPANE WRER WHO END HIS LIFE WH A PEN
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. 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.
What will his son thk if he to know of his equent visg of gay chat rooms? Their varly humane and hilar portras of queerns and same-sex love and lt—and the everyday liv of those who experience them—are illumatg, whether you’re gay, straight, or somewhere between.