Queer Japan: Personal Stories of Japanese Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals
As American gay men, lesbians, and transsexuals continue to battle a conservative, Puritanical society for the right simply to be human, it is immeasurably valuable to hear the words, spoken with a courageous lack of ambiguity, of homosexuals and transsexuals fighting for the same right in a culture even more rigid and denying. In these essays and interviews, bright, brave, large-hearted people tell us of their efforts to live happily and, in the process, create a Japan in which they will be accepted as citizens. --Christopher Davis, University of North Carolina