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Queer Voices from Japan examines the wide range of queer voices in Japan, and the longevity that these minority communities have enjoyed in society. Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker bring together historical and contemporary narratives that contribute to the study of sexual identities in Japan.

<br>Chapter 1 A Visit with Yuasa Yoshiko, a Dandy Scholar of Russian Literature
<br>Chapter 2 My Career in Danshoku: Notes on Sodomy
<br>Chapter 3 Nostalgia for My Time in the Army: Concerning Male Nudity and Sadistic Photographs
<br>Chapter 4 Minyak Kelapa?A Fragrant Breeze of Homosexuality
<br>Chapter 5 Confessions of a Problem: A Round-Table Discussion with Male Prostitutes
<br>Chapter 6 Grand Sodomia Conference: A Discussion of the Joys and Agonies of Homosexuality
<br>Chapter 7 Lifestyles in the Gay Bars
<br>Chapter 8 Roundtable: Female Homos Here We Go
<br>Chapter 9 The Era of Dandy Beauties
<br>Chapter 10 Wakakusa no Kai: The First Fifteen Years of Japan's Originial Lesbian Organization
<br>Chapter 11 They've Got Their Happy Faces On: The Birth of Regumi no Gomame
<br>Chapter 12 Japan's Lesbian Movement: Looking Back on Where We Came From
<br>Chapter 13 Lesbians Living in the Mountains
<br>Chapter 14 Breaking Gender Rules without Remorse
<br>Chapter 15 True Tales from Ni-chome
<br>Chapter 16 Togo Ken, The Legendary Okama: Burning with Sexual Desire and Revolt
<br>Chapter 17 Who Should be Ashamed of Whom?
<br>Chapter 18 Reflections on the Tokyo Lesbian and Gay Parade 2000
<br>Chapter 19 How I Became a FtM Transgender Gay
<br>Chapter 20 My Life as a Woman
<br>Chapter 21 My Life as a Hustler

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.