Queer voices from Japan : first person narratives from Japan's sexual minorities / edited by Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker ; with a foreword by Donald Richie.
| Other author | McLelland, Mark J., 1966-2020 |
| Other author | Suganuma, Katsuhiko. |
| Other author | Welker, James. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2007. |
| Description | xvi, 356 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies of modern Japan Studies of modern Japan. ^A518166 |
| Contents | A visit with Yuasa Yoshiko, a dandy scholar of Russian literature / Sawbe Hitomi -- My career in Danshoku: notes on sodomy / Kondo Takashi -- Nostalgia for my time in the army: concerning male nudity / Morihara Taichi -- Minyak Kelapa-a fragrant breeze of homosexuality / Namiki Sansaku -- Confessions of a problem: a round-table discussion with male prostitutes / Setoguchi Torao [and others] -- Grand Sodomia Conference: a discussion of the joys and agonies of homosexuality / Ujiya Tomiyoshi [and others] -- Lifestyles in the gay bars / Kabiya Kazuhito -- Roundtable: female homos here we go / Saijo Michio [and others] -- The era of dandy beauties / Toyama Hitomi -- "Wakakusa no Kai": the first fifteen years of japan's original lesbian organization / Sawabe Hitomi -- They've got their happy faces on: the birth of "Regumi no Gomame" / Hisada Megumi -- Japan's lesbian movement: looking back on where we came from / Izumo Marou [and others] -- Lesbians living in the mountains / Sawabe Hitomi -- Breaking gender rules without remorse / Noriko Kohashi -- True tales from Ni-chome / Otsuka Takashi -- Togo Ken, the legendary Okama: burning with sexual desire and revolt / Oikawa Kenji -- Who should be ashamed of whom? / Hirano Hiroaki -- Reflections on the Tokyo lesbian and gay parade 2000 / Sunagawa Hideki) -- How I became an FtM transgender gay / Fujio Takafumi) -- My life as a "woman" / Mitsuhashi Junko -- My life as a hustler / Akira the Hustler. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Queer voices from Japan. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2007 |
| Genre/form | Erlebnisbericht. |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| LCCN | 2006038565 |
| ISBN | 9780739121597 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0739121596 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780739108659 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0739108654 (cloth ; alk. paper) |