Title

Salarymen Doing Queer: Gay Men and the Heterosexual Public Sphere in Japan

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

November 2005

Publication Details

This book chapter was originally published as McLelland, MJ, Salarymen Doing Queer: Gay Men and the Heterosexual Public Sphere in Japan, in McLelland, MJ and Dasgupta, R (eds), Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan, Routledge, London, 2005, 96-110. Original book available from here.

Abstract

This paper looks at the difficulties gay men in Japan experience in discussing their sexuality in the Japanese workplace.