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.

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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.

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Queer Voices from Japan examines the wide range of queer voices in Japan, and the longevity that these minority communities have enjoyed in society. Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker bring together historical and contemporary narratives that contribute to the study of sexual identities in Japan.

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