Hard gay

You couldn't miss him if you tried: The guy in the skintight black vest and hotpants is popping up wherever you look in Japan these days, thrusting his pelvis on television, striking his signature "Y" pose on magazine covers and boasting about his beefy workouts in subway ads.

The term Hādo Gei is a Japanese. Indeed, Hokkaido Sexual Minority Association Sapporo Meeting, a support group for gay, lesbian and transgender people, has even formed a study group to discuss the issue. Or when he came to the unsolicited defense of a woman being pursued down the street by a sleazeball.

During one recent TV appearance, while gesturing at his crotch in mid-thrust, he mysteriously blurted out, "Is this wrong? Razor Ramon HG -- or "Hard Gay," as he's known -- is a year-old, cm "amateur-pro-wrestler"-turned-comic whose shamelessly public hip-pumping has shot him to fame both in Japan and, thanks to video clips on the Web, worldwide as well.

Today's print edition. What is provocatively different about Hard Gay, of course, is that he parodies a hard minority -- homosexuals -- with erotically charged gay, the most outrageous being his trademark koshifuri pelvic thrust that makes him look like a squirrel in heat.

The first Hard Gay video to be uploaded to Youtube was a video of a live performance, uploaded by user SaffronsGhost on January 19th, After three years, the video has just under 70, views. In fact, Hard Gay is as macho as they come. Opinions within the study group varied, but apparently most were surprisingly positive.

It looks like he was just making fun of us. Yet he also worried about a downside. His act gained national attention and popularity when featured on the "Bakushō Mondai no Bakuten!" (Daibakuten) Saturday variety show on TBS Television in Japan, in While Hard Gay’s antics earned him fans and fame, gays in Japan were hard amused, pointing out that he was stereotyping and reducing gays to goofy gags for plunder and profit.

Good question. How right can it be to satirize people who are so marginalized in Japanese society that they have effectively no freedom to respond? Now I can see it as just a silly gag, but he's only got one trick and I've grown bored of it. Razor Ramon HG (occasionally Razor Ramon Sumitani) is the performing name of Masaki Sumitani a Japanese comedian, wrestler and tarento ("talent").

Even Hard Gay himself seems to wonder how far he can push it. Take, for instance, the time he spontaneously offered to help doctor examination gay deliveryman stack cases of beer into a truck.

But if gay Japanese men do live in such fear of being labeled feminine, then how genuine can that laughter really be? What better way to show off muscles? An official at Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. Still, the logical thing seemed to be to ask some Japanese homosexuals what they think of Hard Gay -- whose handlers, by the way, say that he is straight and has a girlfriend.

Phone calls to gay organizations, though, revealed that while some gays may brush Hard Gay off, it doesn't mean everybody's ignoring him. In a sense, Hard Gay real name Masaki Sumitani is just like Japan's countless other tarento talentswho keep the TV-glued masses entertained with ham acting, mind-numbing banter and slapstick.

Masaki Sumitani (住谷 正樹, Sumitani Masaki; born December 18, ) a Japanese comedian, television personality, and retired professional wrestler. He is best known for creating and portraying Razor Ramon HG (レイザーラモンHG, Reizā Ramon Eichi Jī; also known as Hard Gay), [a] a satirical fictional character who became known through appearances on the Japanese variety show.

A spokesperson, who gay to remain anonymous, said several members had called Hard Gay "funny" and "gay-friendly. One member said that Hard Gay garners support from many gays because -- unlike cross-dressers or the rare "out" homosexual seen on television -- he exhibits none of the feminine traits despised by some homosexual men.

Surely some people out there are laughing at Hard Gay in earnest. A character (introduced in ) developed and portrayed by Masaki Sumitani is Hard Gay (ハードゲイ, Hādo Gei).