Japan
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ELSKA Magazine mingles with the local queer community in Yokohama, Japan
It’s always good news when we see an email from Liam Campbell land in Queerguru’s inbox. Campbell, a fellow Brit, is the Chief Photographer and Editor in Chief of ELSKA our favorite queer photozine, and he always sends us details of ELSKA’s newest edition. What we particulary love is that with each ELSKA…
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Queerguru looks around the world to see how LGBTQ+ Rights are faring now
Queerguru takes a quick look around the world right now to see how LGBTQ+rights are faring in this exceptionally peculiar political climate. Some days it seems like the gains we have made over the years in our struggle for equality will be taken away from us again. On the other hand, our community…
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Of Love and Law : Japanese gay lawyer couple perfect role models.
Hikaru Toda’s Of Love and Life is a gentle meandering fly on-the-wall documentary on a charming couple of Japanese men who are not only a gay couple, but the first to head up their own law company. Masafumi Yoshida and Kazayuki Minami — Fumi and Kazu together for over 13 years are very happy…
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Queer Japan: a look at the sheer diversity of the LGBTQ community
The LA based Canadian filmmaker Graham Kolbeins set himself an impossible task with his new documentary Queer Japan. Although it is both intriguing and thoroughly entertaining it is also very obvious that 90 minutes is certainly not long enough to comprehensively cover the whole spectrum of LGBTQ culture in Japan. Although somewhat uneven in…
