Queer Voices from Japan

Mark McLelland is lecturer in sociology in the School of Social Science, Media, and Communication at the University of Wollongong. Katsuhiko Suganuma is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. James Welker is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• Chapter 1 A Visit with Yuasa Yoshiko, a Dandy Scholar of Russian LiteratureChapter 2 My Career in Danshoku: Notes on SodomyChapter 3 Nostalgia for My Time in the Army: Concerning Male Nudity and Sadistic PhotographsChapter 4 Minyak Kelapa—A Fragrant Breeze of HomosexualityChapter 5 Confessions of a Problem: A Round-Table Discussion with Male ProstitutesChapter 6 Grand Sodomia Conference: A Discussion of the Joys and Agonies of HomosexualityChapter 7 Lifestyles in the Gay BarsChapter 8 Roundtable: Female Homos Here We GoChapter 9 The Era of Dandy BeautiesChapter 10 "Wakakusa no Kai": The First Fifteen Years of Japan's Originial Lesbian OrganizationChapter 11 They've Got Their Happy Faces On: The Birth of "Regumi no Gomame"Chapter 12 Japan's Lesbian Movement: Looking Back on Where We Came FromChapter 13 Lesbians Living in the MountainsChapter 14 Breaking Gender Rules without RemorseChapter 15 True Tales from Ni-chomeChapter 16 Togo Ken, The Legendary Okama: Burning with Sexual Desire and RevoltChapter 17 Who Should be Ashamed of Whom?Chapter 18 Reflections on the Tokyo Lesbian and Gay Parade 2000Chapter 19 How I Became a FtM Transgender GayChapter 20 My Life as a "Woman"Chapter 21 My Life as a Hustler

With Queer Voices of Japan Mark Mclelland, James Welker, and Katsuhiko Suganuma have put together a marvelous collection of first-person accounts of queer lives since World War II which deserves to be on the reading list of every course dealing with the study of sexuality. The book offers an impressive variety of memoirs, interviews and roundtables, many of them stunning, moving, raw and original.