#in loving memory

[samirafee]

#IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY BELOVED CAT RON🌈🤎🌈 2007-2024

@samirafee

[btspeedfreaxx]

PREACH!!!! 👏🖤 FUCKING PREACH!!!!

I’ve never read a Reddit post that has spouted so much STRAIGHT UP FACTS in my whole damn life!!!!!!

You see, ^ THIS is why y’all should start GIVING A SHIT about Issay and Der Zibet!!!

(If I could add my own Issay-crazed 2 cents into this post,) Let it also been known that this 20,000 word interview that PalaceofIssay-san references within their post, he did in 1994!! During the time period where the AIDS epidemic was hitting Japan- MONSTROUSLY, (and without ANY mercy).

AAAAAAND surprise, surprise! 🙄😔 Just like the rest of the world, extremely Homophobic rhetoric spread throughout the islands along with the awful disease. AIDS got demonized and spewed into the hearts and minds of the scared Shitless Japanese conservative public as “the Gay Virus”, and the very Queer community that Issay loved, and dedicated himself so tirelessly to protecting was Scapegoated, with him included.

I couldn’t imagine how just completely mortified over his own life Issay must’ve been, along with the lost names and martyred souls of countless other Gay individuals. In that same interview, the “fearless” Issay would go on to confess about how scared SHITLESS he was about getting AIDS! To the point where, after he went to go see a movie with his dear friend Tatsuya (who you may know from ALLNUDE,), it was him during the end credits scene to turn around and mention to Issay that he would take care of him if Kamisama forbid anything were to happen to him.

Issay just looked at Tatsuya in silence before he just, cracked. He broke down and started sobbing.

I honestly couldn’t dare to place myself into the mental, inner turmoil Issay must’ve been battling through all this; Within that awful time. To begin to even imagine the sheer loss, hopeless and devastation that laid waste, to over the countless of lives that couldn’t be saved, sexuality be damned. Fathers, mothers, Best friends, mailmen, neighbours, Artists who used tried to use their platform to bring about awareness, demand action for safer sex, and break the stigma; cousins. Midnight club-goers who were just looking to find a connection for the night, for a safe space to have fun or shelter themselves within for the while. Lovers, who against all odds or what people had to think or say about them, dreamed of building their entire lives together.

All of that, faster than you probably even had a glimpse of time to process , just taken away.

These were people who just wanted to live their own autonomous lives, and express themselves the way they wanted to, outside of the suffocating box that society still tried to lock us air-tightly within. That horrible time left a permanent scar on our community. Under the hellfire landscape and tyranny of the orange menace’s widespread, fear-mongering hate-regime, We as Gay, Queer and trans individuals living in 2025 still feel the aftermath of what the AIDS crisis did to people’s views on us, more so than the endless centuries past. To this very day they try to do everything within their power to completely undermine the “Issay”’s of the world.

Christian Nationalism, which was embedded into the government orchestrated state of panic, amidst a much more serious and complex crisis, still threatens to take our rights away in this modern era. Not a single year has gone by since then, where the LGBTQ+ community hasn’t had to have spent years fighting the same old system, because the reality of the matter is: nothing has ever changed. They still hate us- People like Issay, people like me, as a Queer, genderless human being- like so many other community Icons that also helped pave the way. They still continue to scape goat us like back then. They have and always will see us for nothing more than the virus that ended up slaughtering millions worldwide. A virus we weren’t even the cause for. Yet we still carry the torches of our fallen.

The LGBTQ+ community still fights the same battle that Issay fought to put an end to.

Because of everything going on, I want to you to take into consideration that Issay could have easily chosen to keep himself silent in that interview. To just skim over that part of his life, make himself small- to protect himself and his own career. But no, that’s not what happened.

This man chose to share that part of his story, no matter how crass and Innapropriate to the public it may have sounded. He “came out”. With his usual poised defiance and tenacity, he wasn’t going to allow himself to be “closeted”, (I say in quotations cuz like, let’s be fr, was this man ever in there?!! The one he locked himself in, in his room for 3 months doesn’t count). Of course he wouldn’t have ever dreamed to let that happen.

You wanna know why?! Because he was Fujisaki Issay! In all of his punk rock “Fuck you! IDGAF about anything!” Attitude-driven glory! To have censored himself would have been to betray the everything he stood for in life. To have not raged against the machine, with the upmost defiance and sincerity- standing unapologetically beside his core beliefs and Values, would have been to abandon his own self completely.

And 👏 THAT IS WHY I LOVE HIM!!!!!! Forget Johnny Rotten, and forget Sid Viscous- ISSAY WAS A TRUE PUNK!!!!

This man was a QUEER👏GAY👏REBEL👏FUCKING👏ICON!!!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏 A truly unsung hero within the visual kei community, who (as the yougins say I guess-) walked so that other queer Bandōmen could RUN!

But anyways, enough of the giant essay:

🫵 GO LISTEN TO DER ZIBET!!!

With pride month coming just right around the corner, you’d be doing yourself a huge service in honouring this Amazing man, and the insanely talented people he performed with!!

I hope that someday more people will start talking about him, because his legacy deserves to be remembered. His story of rock and roll Caberet-rebellion deserves to be told.

MY OWN THOUGHTS, PT2

Do you ever realise how bold Issay was, when he talked about things like — having no gender, or sleeping with men during his collage years?

We know how Japan is strict when it comes to topic of LGBT+ now, and back then it was much worse than now. Yet, he doesn't care about public opinion and he told us about fact, that he wore make-up to school, painted nails and he doesn't really feels like man, or woman.

I, sometimes, think deeply about those words from the 20,000 words interview with him in 1994.

"In the first place, I don’t have much feelings about being male or female, that’s definitely where I stand. That’s why I hate the “male” “female” categorisations. You see, to me, gender is not something that has an ideal. That’s why, back then, I think I was even more big-headed with even more radical ideas than I am now. And that’s why, in my mind, I don’t have a gender."

I'm not sure if he viewed himself like this when he was older, because there is no interview with mention of it, but!

I'm really amazed by him. It's not about /possibly/ being gay (or bi), and sleeping with them. It's not about ships, not about his gender. It's all about him, because not every artist could say things like this loudly.

He deserves every kind of attention and that's the fact.

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

🥐 no further information, no nuance, pick one 🥐

[h3llis4teenageg1rl]

literally

[zarkute]

II 18 SPOILERS

Real

[thepastisalreadywritten]

🕯️😢🖤

[emotionalhardcore]

portraits of past and spirit of versailles reunion with other insane bands in LA next year

[love-letters-i-never-sent]

[creepyolddude1973]

I wonder if everyone will shout his name when he gets there….

[catsbeaversandducks]

Thank you, my beautiful and sweet boy Bob, for 16 wonderful years. Now, over the Rainbow Bridge, you can play again with your best friend Joaquim. I love you so much.

Photo by Cats, Beavers & Ducks

[txladyfromthecave]

I guess I’m looking good today ❤️💕😍

[joansiesbeloved]

Rest in Peace James Earl Carter Junior. October 1st, 1924 - December 29th, 2024.

[jennievalentine]

[zizels-world]

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