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Possibly the first nanshoku erotic print, as well as an early example of a hand-colored ukiyo-e print in the shunga erotic style. Lesbian-romance themed anime and manga is known as yuri which means "lily". However, English translations are available for Ihara Saikaku who created a bisexual main character in The Life of An Amorous Man , Jippensha Ikku who created an initial gay relationship in the post-publication "Preface" to Shank's Mare et seq , and Ueda Akinari who had a homosexual Buddhist monk in Tales of Moonlight and Rain Nanshoku relationships inside monasteries were typically pederastic: Hard Gay HG , a comedian, shot to fame after he began to appear in public wearing a leather harness, hot pants, and cap. This term was widely used to refer to some kind of male—male sex in a pre-modern era of Japan.

Previously, sei was used to distinguish the binary biological sexes, female and male, as well as the concept of gender. Yuri is used as a catch-all term, much more so than yaoi; it is used to describe female-female relationships in material marketed to straight men, straight women, or lesbians, despite significant stylistic and thematic differences between works aimed at these different audiences. Some non-gay entertainers have used stereotypical references to homosexuality to increase their profile. A number of artists, nearly all male, have begun to speak publicly about their homosexuality, appearing on various talk shows and other programs, their celebrity often focused on their sexuality; twin pop-culture critics Piko and Osugi are an example. Many terms describing gender presentation had vastly irregular meanings such as okama, whose definitions included: Umbrella terms such as these had a negative sociological impact, generalizing various queer identities into a single concept. Lesbian-romance themed anime and manga is known as yuri which means "lily".

Specialized publications featuring LGBT content have been using the term hentai zasshi or "perverted publications. In anime and manga[ edit ] There is a genre of anime and manga that focuses on gay male romance and sometimes explicit content known as yaoi. Another word that has recently become popular in Japan as an equivalent of yuri is "GL" meaning "Girls' Love" and obviously inspired by "Boys' Love". Gei-comi "gay-comics" are gay-romance themed comics aimed at gay men.