Tobias Waters

Tokyo’s Top Gay Bar Scene Nichome, Tokyo’s gayborhood in the heart of busy Shinjuku, mere minutes from the busiest commuting railway station in the world,...

For Gay/Yaoi/Boys’ Love (BL) anime, we’re sorry to keep the fellas waiting a little over a month after our run-down of this year’s yuri anime,...

Japan has long been regarded as famously conservative nation, and not without cause. Since 1955, the right-of-center Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been the ruling...

If there’s one passion that unites any and all fandoms, it’s creating niche vocabulary. It not only helps to clarify things that might not map...

Few things in life are black and white (except for perhaps badgers and zebra), and so too there are spectrums across sexuality, gender, and the...

While there is no shortage of people looking to think twink when looking for someone to share a life (or even just the night) there...

Way back in 2022, a lesbian friend of mine invited me out for a drink to introduce me to her new belle. We had a...

If you’re less initiated in the lesbian community (or, heaven forfend, a man) you may hear the word “stud” and think of a 1970s letterman...

In episode nine of the third season of the tragically underrated US sitcom Happy Endings, Max is encouraged by his friends to find his “gay...

One of the most controversial literary figures in post-war Japan, Yukio Mishima was undoubtedly a literary genius, and was once on the short-list for the...