ABSTRACT
This chapter engages in critical con the performative rhetoric of an one-kei talento, Matsuko Deluxe. Matsuko discusses the promotion of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Japan. The constructions of LGBT identities, performances, and politics, emerging from Western/US American thinking, are increasingly becoming, and functioning as, a default in the contemporary context of globalization. The chapter focuses on creating a path to visualize currently unspecified maps of Japanese male-queerness. A conceptual intersection of queer theory and autoethnography reveals a similar intellectual and political space. Queer theory reinforces a theoretical idealism of individual agency and sexual freedom that ignores communal ties and structural constraints. Storytelling also enables queer sexual minoritarians to produce counter-narratives that interrupt master narratives. The chapter concludes by celebrating Matsuko Deluxe, who paradoxically offers potential spaces of queerness to identify the holes in and failures of Japanese society and identity for a future 'that is a spatial and temporal destination'.
