LGBTQ Comics Event August 19 and 20 (today and tomorrow) is Flamecon, NYC’s only all-LGBTQ comic event! I’ll be presenting the Discovering Yuri Manga (which they have inexplicably named “Into the Depths“) at 1:00 on Sunday. See you there! Sunday, they are doing a Youth Day promotion. All attendees under 21 can enter for free! […]

Yuri Manga It’s an online Yuri manga bonanza this week! For those of you reading Shimura Takako’s Awajima Hyakkei (淡島百景) series online, the final issue will be posted in October, according to Ohta Publishing’s twitter account. Presumably this means that the series, about a group of young ladies who have entered an academy for a famous […]

Yuri Manga Yuri Hime Comics is releasing Rakuji Tarahi’s Nijiiro Secret (にじいろシークレット) this week. Later this month, I’m surprised and a little excited to see Volume 5 of Himawari-san (ひまわりさん), a series in which nothing happens and, like the Talking Heads’ Heaven, who knew that nothing could be so exciting? Next month we’ll see a collection, Cider to […]

Yuri Manga Starting off with something cool today: You may remember about a year ago when Tokyo Disney was the site of a lesbian wedding. Higashi Koyuki and Tabuchi Hiroko ended up with a globally covered wedding event. Now Higashi-san has written a comic, which has been illustrated by Masuhara Yuuko, called Lesbian Married Life (レズビアン的結婚生活). […]

Lesbian Live Action Movie Way back in 2002, it was my very great privilege to present the Revolutionary Girl Utena Movie at the Castro Theater for the Frameline LGBT Film Festival. It was an amazing experience. I introduced the movie in front of Ikuhara Kunihiko himself and to 1200 people – 1000 of whom had […]