Tidbits for Bara article[edit]

Queer Japan from the Pacific war to the internet age
Mark J. McLelland

p156, note 16 "the 1992 "Gay Present" edition of the popular magazine Takarajima includes a description of the top 40 boy-love manga enjoyed by gay men - practically all authored by women."

Asian masculinities: the meaning and practice of manhood in China and Japan
Edited by Kam Louie, Morris Low
"Gay men, masculinity and the media in Japan" Mark McLelland, pg 59-81

p 66 "The favorite scenarios for gay sex in gay magazines and videos are typical men-only situations: the sports club, the changing room, the all-boys school, the building site, the dormitory, the cruising ground. Gay media rarely situate the gay man in the interior, feminine space of the family or the home (as gay boom depictions tend to do), but remove him from the world of women and place him in an exclusively male domain..."

p66-67 "On the few occasions when women are present in these narratives, they appear as the opponents of gay men in the pursuit of the same quarry - straight men - or as näive dupes, chasing after gay men who are only interested in sexual relations with other men"