{"id":8271,"date":"2015-07-23T01:43:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T01:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=8271"},"modified":"2015-12-27T19:24:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T19:24:49","slug":"the-nuts-and-bolts-of-gay-and-bl-manga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=8271","title":{"rendered":"The nuts and bolts of Gay and BL manga"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I look at gay art in comics as a critic, I get really anxious about that division precisely because the simplistic way of dividing it is that BL represents more romance, narratives, thinner body types, more effeminate characters. And then so-called gay manga would be just more diesel, big guys and more hardcore sex, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But what happens when the creator is a woman doing more hardcore work? Is that considered gay? Is it BL just because she\u2019s female? Is it about the audience, or is it about the creators?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Gengoroh Tagame<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8272\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/91u94Qx-XgL._SL1500_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8272\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/91u94Qx-XgL._SL1500_-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"My Brother's Husband, by Gengoroh Tagame.\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/91u94Qx-XgL._SL1500_-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/91u94Qx-XgL._SL1500_-720x1024.jpg 720w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/91u94Qx-XgL._SL1500_.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Brother&#8217;s Husband, by Gengoroh Tagame.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m so thrilled to see that the transcript from the TCAF panel on Gay Manga and BL manga<a href=\"http:\/\/mangacomicsmanga.com\/tcaf-2015-gengoroh-tagame-talks-gay-manga-bara-bl-and-scanlation\/\"> has been posted at Deb Aoki&#8217;s MangaComicsManga<\/a>. Thanks to Deb for hosting it, to Shaindle Minuk for the transcription, and Deb and Graham for the edits.<\/p>\n<p>The actual panel title was &#8220;Gay Comics Art Japan&#8221;, and it talks about not just gay manga, not just BL, but gay identity as it&#8217;s expressed through art, and the identities of its creators. It is exactly what I hoped it would be when I helped put it together, and Graham Kolbeins (Massive), Leyla Aker (VIZ\/SuBLime), Gengoroh Tagame, and especially host, translator, and panelist Anne Ishii, all did an incredible job. I&#8217;m so proud of them and grateful to them.<\/p>\n<p>This is a wonderful look at many of the facets of homosexual desire as expressed through Japanese manga, and I hope you&#8217;ll take the time to read it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When I look at gay art in comics as a critic, I get really anxious about that division precisely because the simplistic way of dividing it is that BL represents more romance, narratives, thinner body types, more effeminate characters. And then so-called gay manga would be just more diesel, big guys and more hardcore sex, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=8271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The nuts and bolts of Gay and BL manga&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[370],"class_list":["post-8271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manga","category-queer","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8274,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions\/8274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}