Japanese boy band celebrating queer love by making out in a church
I must confess I don’t know much about the subject, but the attitude to homosexuality in Japan seems to be quite ambivalent. A city like Tokyo has plenty to offer in the field of er… entertainment for adventurous queers and there’s a whole separate, very successful genre of manga dealing with romance between gays. You can buy those in common bookstores, you don’t need to go to seedy sex shops to get them. They are very respectable literature.
However, same sex marriage is still prohibited, although there has been made some progress lately, with some cities and city wards legalizing same-sex partnerships, granting limited legal benefits to same-sex couples.
A really good Japanese movie about common people dealing with same-sex relationships is Hush! by director Ryosuke Hashiguchi. I really recommend it. It’s a touching, empathetic film about love and overcoming prejudice.
Anyway, the above video is quite a breakthrough, with the members of a boyband, MeseMoa., kissing, smooching, osculating, exchanging saliva, in a church!
There was a thing here in Holland a while back with men – politicians and two-bit TV-personalities – awkwardly and prudishly holding each other’s hands to show THE MUSLIMS how enlightened they were, accepting same-sex romance and all.
These boys show they have bigger balls than the Dutch opportunists hiding their racism behind their cheap theatrics, by going all the way and breaking taboos in their own culture rather than pointing out some perceived backwardness in someone else’s group.
So shit music (I mean really, I can’t even watch the video with the sound on) but very brave statement. Hurray for those pretty boys. (PB)
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