2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

An International Comparison of the Global Spread of BL and Other Genres and Their Relationship with Actual LGBT People and Cultures in Various Countries

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Project/Area Number	19H04388
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Review Section	Basic Section 80030:Gender studies-related
Research Institution	Meiji University
Principal Investigator	Fujimoto Yukari 明治大学, 国際日本学部, 専任教授 (50515939)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	石田仁明治学院大学, 社会学部, 研究員 (40601810) ウェルカージェームズ神奈川大学, 国際日本学部, 教授 (40710174) 長池一美大分大学, 教育マネジメント機構, 教授 (90364992)
Project Period (FY)	2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Keywords	LGBT / BL / 表現と現実 / 社会学的意識調査 / 国際比較 / 伝播と変容
Outline of Final Research Achievements	We conducted overseas surveys in Canada,Mexico,the Philippines,Malaysia,Taiwan, South Korea,Thailand,France,Germany,and other countries to investigate the actual acceptance of BL in each country and its relationship to real-life LGBTQ issues. We also shared our research findings via presentations at AAS and other international conferences. In addition, we carried out and analyzed two web-based surveys of female BL fans and non-fans, and of gay and bisexual males. We shared a brief report on this survey as well as our survey data online. We also shared the results at the Japan Sociological Society. Lead researcher Yukari Fujimoto oversaw and helped coordinate “Hajimete no BL-ten” (the First BL Exhibition), which opened in May 2023. In November of that year, we held the international conference “LGBTQ Issues and the Globalization of ‘BL’” which included 19 speakers from 9 countries, presenting in both Japanese and English, and we presented the final report of our research findings.
Free Research Field	マンガ／ジェンダー
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	日本においては「BLとゲイは対立するもの」という考え方が主流であったが、本研究によって改めて、海外ではBLファンとLGBTQの人々が協力してイベントを行う例が多くあることが確認された。各国でのイベントの特徴を角川武蔵野ミュージアムで行われた「はじめてのBL展」で世界地図にして示し、「BL年表」にもLGBTQに関する事項を盛り込み、両者の関係を示した。最終国際会議「＜BL>の海外への広がりと、各国のLGBTQ」において各国の事例報告と、特にタイのBL文化についての詳しい報告と討議、女性／ゲイ・バイセクシュアル男性を対象にBLファンと非ファンに分けて行ったアンケート調査の結果も報告・共有した。