These two experiences revealed to me the complicated relationship between the LGBTQ community and Japanese social culture. This took me aback, and made me ponder all of the possible reasons why: Is he naïve, and just didn’t know? Is being ‘in the closet’ much more depressingly common in Japan? Is he denying having met any gay people? Has he, by coincidence, genuinely never met a single gay person in his twenty-something years of life? It was a wonderful sight, and filled the air with electric vibrancy and colour.Ī few weeks later, a student of mine at a Tokyo university, a young man in his early twenties who was close to obtaining his MA, told me he didn’t believe he’d ever met a gay person. It opens your eyes to an important yet painful reality in Japan, all through the use of dark humour, minimalist art, and queer honesty.īack in the summer of 2016 I was walking through Tokyo, somewhere near the Shibuya district, when I stumbled across a Gay Pride parade marching gleefully, cheering and singing under the crisp blue June sky. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is a graphic memoir composed with raw and honest pain.
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