At initially, there was overall silence. Then, there were screams, wild praise, crying and yells of “I love you!”
Fans of Shinjiro Atae, a J-pop idolizer that has actually gotten on a virtually two-year performance hiatus, had actually pertained to hear him discuss “the challenge of my life.” Standing onstage in a dark amphitheater before 2,000 followers in main Tokyo on Wednesday evening, he exposed something he has actually maintained concealed for the majority of his life: He is gay.
“I respect you and believe you deserve to hear this directly from me,” he claimed, reviewing from a letter he had actually prepared. “For years, I struggled to accept a part of myself. But now, after all I have been through, I finally have the courage to open up to you about something. I am a gay man.”
Such a statement is exceptionally uncommon in conventional Japan, the only G7 nation that hasnot legalized same-sex unions Earlier this summertime, the Japanese …