tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12627448.post113941170057040383..comments2023-10-26T22:37:19.944+09:00Comments on Chinese Chic 中華風 中華チック : Gay Japan 同志日本 ゲイ日本hcpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04873196049058280832noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12627448.post-53824182068332583232009-06-13T08:12:54.234+09:002009-06-13T08:12:54.234+09:00My name is Conan R H Dunham songwriter/singer kno...My name is Conan R H Dunham songwriter/singer known best for my 1979 album <br />“Tell Ol’ Anita”. There are multiple pages on Google about myself and the album mostly referring to me as supposedly dead. I am very much alive at least from the waist up and have a new rock and roll album “Conan’s Back” which I will be mailing out copies in the next 10 days. I would very much appreciate any support I might be afforded from your station and I need your mailing address if you would like a copy. My biography is listed on my web page on my web site (I will spell it carefully as blockers will delete it any other way.<br />conans[dash]back[dot]com<br />I thank you so very much and look forward to hearing from you. <br />Regards ConanConan Dunhamhttps://www.conans-back.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12627448.post-71312465550422756172007-07-30T12:09:00.000+09:002007-07-30T12:09:00.000+09:00Great Point!http://americanhunt.blogspot.com/Great Point!<BR/><BR/>http://americanhunt.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12627448.post-1143298185770244322006-03-25T23:49:00.000+09:002006-03-25T23:49:00.000+09:00greg: Thanks for the additional points, hope u com...greg: Thanks for the additional points, hope u come bck often.hcpenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04873196049058280832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12627448.post-1143134073171409832006-03-24T02:14:00.000+09:002006-03-24T02:14:00.000+09:00Just a quick comment as I was doing a web search a...Just a quick comment as I was doing a web search and came across this blog and found the Japan Times article in which I was quoted (my name is Greg Dvorak, the Australian National University student with the "rainbow flag imperialism" quote)... I've been surprised by how much this article has been redistributed and posted on gay sites around the WORLD--just trying to track down something else I came across so many references to this and I feel it's good that there's more exposure for alternative readings of homosexuality in Japan, but at the same time I was discouraged about how this particular reporter (a newcomer to Japan who does not speak Japanese) misrepresented a lot of what I was saying and also fused it together quite casually with the very naive remarks of a fresh-off-the-boat orientalist type American who felt so "liberated" in Japan. <BR/><BR/>Quick follow up in case anyone is reading--my point was to say that Japan does not have a precedent of identity politics centered around queerness or gayness, and its precedent of Nanshoku relations between samurai or monks, Kabuki actors, etc. were very much codified in a different way that followed a totally different trajectory to the invention of the European discourses surrounding homosexuality in the 1800s. So for SOME Japanese who feel inhibited in Japan, they compare themselves to "Westerners" and say that Japan is oppressive and not free. And for many foreigners, who are obviously outside their own cultural moral framework, of course there is a sense of freedom. But unfortunately what the reporter, Ms. Larkin, left out of her article, was the very IMPORTANT (!!!) point that that doesn't mean that it's easy to be a man who loves other men in Japan. Certainly it's not stigmatized in the same way as the West but there is a whole other range of stigma and ostracization that comes up around the issue, as well as another framework of identity. My point was merely that to try and read all this through the lens of the rainbow flag is completely absurd and only a marker for how American hegemonic values and the largely American gay pride movement has become yet another imperialistic global standard through which we are able to see less and less of what's REALLY there!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com