This isn't the folk scene, but when I was in Japan last year working for Disney around 90% of the male dancers were gay. It was accepted and no one thought anything about it. We were all performers and there to do a job. They even made jokes about it.
There was one young man named Denny who was very swish. He would come down to the common area at E-village where we all lived and announce,"All right peasants. The Queen of E-village is here. Someone peel me a grape."
It's a little hard to think badly of someone with that kind of sense of humor.

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