( 2002 ) Virtual ethnography: using the Internet to study gay culture in Japan , Sexualities , 5 , 4 , 387 – 406 .M.J. McClelland, ‘Virtual ethnography’ using the Internet to study gay culture in Japan’, Sexualities , 2002, voo. 5, no. 4, p. 87....
Put it this way, Tokyo is so fabulous, even the gorgeous Queer Eye Fab Five team made it over here and filmed a few episodes exploring the queer culture of Japan. We've visited Tokyo several times over the past few years and experienced the best Tokyo's gay scene has to offer. We've...
That's how we feel every time we set foot in Japan. It's one of our favorite countries to visit. On the one hand, it gives you that intense culture shock that we so crave from traveling, yet on the other, it's like you've hopped into a time machine and woken up years in the ...
After English and Chinese, Japanese is the most widely represented language on the internet and yet few studies have been made of how communities in Japan engage with this new technology. This article looks at the internet both as a virtual space in which Japanese and foreign gay men can meet...
With over 300 bars crammed into the size of a football field, Shinjuku Nichome is the densest gay bar district in the world. In recent years, it's gained popularity worldwide as a landmark of LGBT culture in Japan, but visiting tourists often...
The “drawback” of more rural gay bars is they are usually too small for dancing or large gatherings. Moreover, make sure the bar isn’t single-sex (i.e. “men/women only”), because gender-exclusion is not unheard of in East Asian queer bar culture. Trans folk should feel free to...
Wollongong. For further information contact the UOWLibrary: research-pubs@uow.edu.auPublication DetailsMcLelland, MJ, Japan’s Original Gay Boom, in Allen, M, and Sakamoto, R (eds), Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan, Routledge,2006, 159-173. Copyright Routledge 2006. Original book ...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook LG (redirected fromLesbian and Gay) Dictionary Related to Lesbian and Gay:GLBT Category filter: AcronymDefinition LGLarge LGLife's Good LGLife's Good(electronics company, Japan, Asia) ...
all of them male. Mt. Hiei alone had a population of 3,000, and all of them were expected to stay on the mountain, isolated, for 12 years. That's a long time to be surrounded exclusively by men. This isolation likely encouraged the openness and growth of homosexual culture amongst Budd...
in the popular culture of the Taish6 and Sh6wa periods and my own (McLelland 2000a) monograph on male homosexuality. The publication of Wim Lunsing's (2001) study of non-mainstream relationships and Sharon Chalmers's (2002) monograph on lesbians in contemporary Japan suggests that the ...