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  • Ranking position: #
  • Date: 2026-04-27 03:44:04

This topic has appeared in the trending rankings 1 time(s) in the past year. While it does not trend frequently, its appearance suggests a renewed or concentrated surge of public interest.

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Barazoku entered the ranking for the first time today at position #. This is its highest position ever recorded.

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This topic has appeared in the English Wikipedia rankings 1 time. It first appeared on 2026-04-27 and was most recently seen on 2026-04-27.

Barazoku

Wikipedia Overview

Barazoku (薔薇族) was Japan's first commercially circulated gay men's magazine. It began publication in July 1971 by Daini Shobō's owner's son and editor Bungaku Itō , although before that, there had been Adonis and Apollo, its extra issue, around 1960 serving as a members-only magazine. Barazoku was Japan's oldest and longest-running monthly magazine for gay men. However, it halted publication three times due to the publisher's financial hardships. In 2008, Itō announced that the 400th issue would be the final one. The title means "the rose tribe" in Japanese, hinted from King Laius' homosexual episodes in Greek mythology. The magazine was printed in Japanese only. Barazoku's Bungaku Itō coined the term for the Japanese lesbian community as which the slang term for lesbian yuri comes from.

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