Gaycation is a new series from Viceland, Vice’s TV channel, featuring Ellen Page and her friend traveling the world in search of gay stuff.
Episode 1 is Japan, especially Tokyo and Nichome.
Of course, Vice likes to veer toward the sensationalism, as its previous “schoolgirls for sale” article showed, and as such this episode does have some bad choices (“rent-a-friend agency and joining the party in the world’s smallest gay bar”).
It also starts with some cliched footage of Shibuya and halfway through resorts to shots of Scramble Crossing, but if you keep watching, there is some good material, such as a trip to a transgender club in Tokyo and discussing the trend for cosplay-style cross-dressing among so-called straight people in Japan. It even manages to capture an actual coming-out scene. That powerful moment alone is quite something to watch. You can see it below.
Here is the full episode.
