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Coming Out in Japan From Pots and Pans to Alphabet Soup: Japanese Queer Identities in Context
It's reliable to say that most learners of Japanese hope to experience life in Japan someday. Whether it's for a temporary stay or something more everlasting, one of the most fascinating things about living in a foreign nation is the way you experience a shift in persona. For one, your national identity becomes more salient than ever before. Paradoxically, it also becomes less salient, as you find yourself in the loosely-defined category of "foreigner." Based on your outward appearance, you might present as part of the minority or the majority, and the privileges or discrimination you experience in your home region may shift or take on fresh meanings.
While we could probably write dozens of articles about the identity topics above, this article is going to focus on less visible identities — those of the LGBTQ+ community. Unlike identities related to your country of origin or ethnic background, queer identities often have to be revealed in order to be recognized. This poses a problem for queer learners of Japanese. How perform I come out in Japanese? If I choose to come out, carry out I k
A crash course in Japanese vocabulary to help you navigate all sexualities and genders under the LGBT rainbow 🌈.
LGBT+ issues possess been a gigantic topic this past year. In October 2018, hit life TV show Terrace House welcomed their first openly multi-attracted cast member Shunsuke Ikezoe. In February 2019, thirteen lgbtq+ and lesbian couples sued the Japanese government in a bid to legalize same-sex marriage. In May of this year, the biggest lesbian bar in Tokyo got called out for refusing entry to a transgender woman at a women-only event. And in more positive news, at the beginning of this month, Ibaraki became the first prefecture in Japan to recognize lgbtq+ partnerships.
With topics coming up more frequently than ever in the news, on TV shows, and even in everyday conversations, having a grasp of Japanese LGBT+ vocabulary is sure to appear in handy. And if you’re a friend of Dorothy yourself, reviewing these terms before your next trip to a Japanese LGBT+ space will be great to assist you describe your own identity and understand the various labels yourself.
While you might get by sometimes with simply saying English words in a katakana-like way (for example, “
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Re: Bara, Yaoi, BL - what are the genre/subgenre differences?
#2Postby arcadeparty »
This is actually a super interesting question (at least to me) and the address, especially when it comes to the question of "yaoi VS bara" for an audience of gay men, is just this:
It genuinely varies from work to work and from person to person!
I can say that although I've generally had a few love interests in different things that wouldn't be out of place in either the yaoi or bara genres, I typically don't phone my own personal work either one* in marketing or conversations about it, but I act feel comfortable generally lumping what I make into the larger category of "BL" if it seems like "MxM" or "BxB" doesn't the point across to someone.
(* - This doesn't mean that I don't tag my stuff as those things if I think it could genuinely apply or that I don't get hits from categories/games in those genres, though! Tomai actually gets its highest and second-highest number of hits from an Itchio category called "Yaoi/BL Games", while AWOO gets the biggest amount of traffic from a "furry bara dating sim" that Itchio categorizes as similar, and Love and Formaldehyde has