World Wide Wave

28 May 2013

Japan: Where anime and gay media thrive

Asia/Pacific

An expert in Japanese gay porn? Thomas Baudinette is.

He’s looking at the kinds of images of gay men are disseminated throughout these media–whether they have tight bodies, a masculine highly built muscular bodies or whether they are slim.

And he loves his research.

His thesis topic? Investigating the Discursive instruction of desire–Japanese gay men and the media.

Thomas is also an encyclopedia of Japanese LGBT facts. We chat about the inclusivity of the LGBT movement, transgendered people in the media and workplace discrimination against unmarried men.

Read more about Thomas’s research on W3JOY’s Japan website.

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