drupagliassotti @ May 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Yay — I just received a box of Boys’ Love Manga from the publisher! The official publication launch is August 2010, but I understand you can buy it now through Amazon.Com (although it’s listed as temporarily out of stock as of this posting); you can also order it directly from the publisher, McFarland & Company. [...]
drupagliassotti @ April 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Last Friday the New York Times published “Out of the Closet and Up, Up and Away” about Skin Tight USA at the Stonewall Inn in West Village. The Skin Tight party — in which the costumes range from the familiar (like Spider-Man) to ones that only a comics geek would recognize (like the 1993 version [...]
drupagliassotti @ February 1, 2010 # 2 Comments
Last April I mentioned that I’d been introduced to the term “girlfag” by German scholar Uli Meyer, who ended up contributing a chapter to our Boys’ Love Manga academic collection. I wrote that the concept intrigued me and seemed potentially relevant to slash and BL fans. However, I’d had a hard time finding anything out [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 4, 2010 # 4 Comments
My chapter in our upcoming boys’ love anthology compares heterosexual to male/male romances, and as I’ve written here before, I’ve been thinking about turning my research attentions away from yaoi and toward the new genre of original, English-language, female-authored male/male romance novels. Lo, yesterday a friend sent me this link to an article in the [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 25, 2009 # 2 Comments
Multiple recent surveys suggest that about 60 percent of young Japanese men — in their 20s and early 30s — identify themselves as herbivores. Their Sex and the City is a television show called Otomen, or Girly Guys. The lead character is a martial arts expert, the manliest guy in the whole school. But his [...]