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Comics With Gay Themes Attracting Young Female Readers

By: News Editor
Date: Monday, March 13, 2006
Source: MTV.com

MTV.com reports that manga's focus on relationships and the lives of young people have brought girls to comics in a way that action comics never did.

Today girls are avid readers of Tokyopop's "Fruits Basket," a long-running series about a girl who lives with people who can turn into animals, and Viz's "Naruto," an ongoing adventure about a boy in ninja school.

In particular, comics featuring male-male romances are particularly popular with females.

CEO of Tokyopop Stuart Levy told MTV, "When we started it about six or seven years ago we couldn't get manga anywhere. They said, 'No way. You're never going to get this stuff in the stores in America. Just go back to Japan and don't bother.' "

At a yaoi panel called Brokeback Manga, Masumi O'Donnell, publisher of "Be Beautiful, told guests "Yaoi is perfect for post-shojo readers. It gives very romantic stories and romantic situations and plots, but these are very impossibly beautiful men. Women like looking at beautiful men, and that's why I thought this would be a very popular genre."

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clarkfquinones • Mar 13, 2006, 08:29am •
if it isn't gay movies,it gay tv shows, now gay comics. gladd and other gay groups now seem to be trying to pass themselves as normal to children and teenagers with yet another abomination.

neogothboy74 • Mar 13, 2006, 09:11am •
Gays aren't passing themselves off as normal. Gays are normal. But sadly, so are hatred & ignorance, which you've clearly demonstrated clarkfquinoes.

• Mar 13, 2006, 09:22am •
Great, more gay crap....

Dude, there is nothing normal about 2 guys butt slamming each other.

Great this is going to be that brokeback gay mountain thread all over again

plagueboy • Mar 13, 2006, 09:34am •
Tokyopop likely has nothing to do with GLADD. However, there are as many normal gay people as there are straight people. However, homophoboic people are not normal. These "comics" are likely to appeal to children and teenagers as much as comics about straight characters. If a parent doesn't want a child reading any type of comic, it's well within their parental rights to brainwash their children to be homophobes or anti-manga, if they are smart enough to be involved in their child's reading.

There are more straight people who have anal sex than gay people. If you don't like it, don't think about it. However, it's extremely ignorant to hate someone based on your imagination of what they may or may not be doing in the bedroom. The fact that you think about it so much, probably means something.

• Mar 13, 2006, 09:47am •
Brainwashing is what gays are doing to pass themselves off as normal. I would not want my kid to read this crap. There are many other comics out there for him to enjoy, he doesn't need to see a comic about gays.

Anyway, anal between a man and woman is more normal than a man and another man. And BTW the Anal is not what makes a person gay, it is the fact that it is between 2 people of the same sex that makes a person gay..

plagueboy • Mar 13, 2006, 10:27am •
Being gay doesn't make anyone less normal than having red hair. You may want to look up the definition of normal, especially related to "social norm". However, it is considered to stray from the norm to hate people based on gender. There's only one golden rule, and hate violates it. Very little media has the intent of brainwashing.

These manga books are not trying to brainwash kids any more than any other fiction. These comics appeal to young women because of the sappy relationships and lower level of violence than other comics. Gays exists. Stories that acknowledge this are much less brainwashing than those that pretend that they don't.

I doubt you will find a comic that isn't published by the KKK or Neo Nazis that has a homophobic story line that will directly suit your brainwashing. Even Collosus from the X-Men and Northstar from Alpha Flight are gay. Estimates are that 1 in 10 people are gay.

Anything except the missionary position between a man and a woman definitely isn't considered "normal" in polite society, no matter who it's between. Anal sex between two men doesn't make them gay. Two men being attracted to eachother makes them gay. I'm sure that there are gay men that find anal sex between two men as disgusting as you do. Your disgust for gays seems to come from your vivid imagination of how two gay men show intimacy. I don't personally like thinking about my parents having sex, as it's pretty disgusting. However, I know that they did. I just don't think about it. It doesn't make me hate them. I'm glad that this probably means you like gay women.

• Mar 13, 2006, 10:29am •
What I find disturbing is not so much homosexuality, but the anger and hate associated with homophobes. I don't like homosexuality, I don't accept it, but I don't trash it and hate people because of it. If homosexuals are going to burn in hell as the Bible says, then that's their fate. I have many friends that are gay, and we respect each other's bounderies. I think that the people who hate and persecute gays so vehemently are probably closeted gays themselves, and are projecting their own inadequacies upon homosexuals because they won't accept it in themselves.

• Mar 13, 2006, 10:59am •
Gay gay gay......before you know it, we'll have a gay Sci-Fi show(oh wait, that was Star Trek....JK JK!). What is going on here? I mean, if you're gay, great, that's your personal preference(sick, but personal), but enough with the in the face gayness we are seeing. Have your lifestyle, but don't shove it in MY face....I'm sick of it. It's hard enough with 2 boys to keep them from seeing porn, violence, and bad language, but potraying homosexuality is getting out of hand.
And Otter1107, this isn't a "closet gay" situation. Like with so many things, once something gets a hold of an audience, we get a SWAMPING of that subject matter to the point of going WAYYYY too far. Reality TV ring a bell? CSI type shows ring another bell? Law shows? See what I mean? Now we have an over-playing of "gay themes" and shows. I don't have a problem with someone who's "gay", but they need to NOT make so much out of it, like it's a cool thing to be. It's not. It's wrong. It's UNnatural. And I don't need ANOTHER topic to have to work at keeping my sons from seeing. No matter what anyone says, Homosexuality is NOT a natural thing. It goes against natures design(or Gods, depending on your stance). Only HUMANS have "gays".

• Mar 13, 2006, 11:03am •
I don't mind gay people, I just don't want the lifestyle pushed on me. Whatever floats your boat, You wanna have sex with another guy, do it, Bang Away, but don't tell me that is normal. I seriously Doubt God and Nature intended this to be a normal activity. I personally believe this is just a perverted sexual fetish. But I am tired of hearing about movies like Brokeback Gay mountain and other gay movies, Keep em in your gay circle or community.

The purpose of sex is too reproduce, that is what it is intended for in the animal kingdom. Only a Man and a woman are able to reproduce, that is the way it is intended. That is Normal. Well, we as humans are the only species that have sex out of Pleasure, therefore that can go down a road of lust, and lust can lead down other roads.

I have never once said they will burn in hell, that is between them and God. I just find Immoral, and I don't care to have it pushed in my face. I don't have to like it, I get to speak my mind, you can call me ignorant and racist all you want, but I am not going to like it because it is NOT NORMAL.

• Mar 13, 2006, 11:08am •
"anal sex between two men doesn't make them gay", What the fuck does it make them, doesn't make them straight! plagueboy, I think you are a little confused.

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