@ChristiJunior @RehnSturm256 @SuperSnekFriend Yuri, in all its degrees, does not align with LGBT as it does not seek to replace the norm. It often exists complementary to 'interest in boys' in coming-of-age and intimate female to female friendships where boundaries blur. Yet girls in such relationships often end up as mothers and wives later on.

Similarly, homosexuality throughout the history of Japan never sought to replace the norm between man and woman. Whether so-called onnagirai (women-haters), onnagata (males acting as females), or wakashu (young male actors/prostitutes) they did their thing without trying to force their views on others, change laws, or demonize families. "You leave us alone and we don't bother you."

In some shape or form such sexual minorities existed almost everywhere at all times, at the outskirts of society. LGBT takes these outliers and attempts to normalize them. The deviant is normal, the normal is deviant, and if you disagree then you're an evil monster. "Straight male who seeks wife for family? Yea, we got a pervert here!"

Many sexual minorities, in Japan especially, do not agree with this switcheroo, as it brings attention and pressure to their hitherto undisturbed activities. Some also realize their identities are hijacked and abused to bring about change in politics. Change for which many never signed up for.