Canadian ladies love the yaoi

0 Comments POSTED ON May 24 2007 AT 11:51 am BY Beat

A Toronto Gay lifetysle website runs an interesting preview of the Anime North convention by looking at yaoi fans through a gay perspective:

But Kat Williams, a Toronto-based anime artist and author who organized queer panels at the convention for several years beginning in 2000, says she’s dismayed by the lack of queer content created specifically for queers at recent Anime North gatherings.

“[Last year's Yaoi North] was pretty much straight girls squealing about their favourite [gay anime] couples,” says Williams.

Lai makes no bones about the genre’s objectification of queer men. “But yaoi men are as ridiculous as gay porn men,” she says.

Nor is she worried about the lack of gay activism at the conference. “We don’t discourage people being proud and out or talking about issues like that… [but] this is a hobby, an interest. Our purview is discussing cartoons. We’re not saving lives.”

Schwartz is all for straight anime lovers’ queer obsessions. “These people are our straight allies. They’re the ones who are with us at gay pride marches, and if they relate to gay media, then that makes me happy bringing them into the gay community.”

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  1. Ed Gauthier says:

    Kat Williams? He’s a popular black comic in America. Makes me wonder if that means there’s a parallel universe, where there’s also another Chris Rock or Eddie Murphy up in Canada drawing away, while… naw, couldn’t be.

  2. michael says:

    i’m not against gay anything, but the whole manga/anime gay love thing by straight people weirds me out.

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