Go Hirano
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{{nihongo|Go Hirano|平野剛}} was a Japanese homoerotic fetish artist. Hirano, along with Go Mishima, Sanshi Funayama, and Tatsuji Okawa, is regarded by artist and historian Gengoroh Tagame as a central figure in the first wave of contemporary gay artists in Japan.
Biography
Very little information is known about Hirano, as his works were submitted to his editors anonymously. His illustrations are noted for their realist art style, and often featured masculine men with body hair.
In the 1960s, Hirano was published in {{ill|Fuzokukitan{{!}}Fuzokukitan|ja|風俗奇譚}}, a fetish magazine that published gay content alongside straight and lesbian content. His art appeared in Barazoku, the first commercially circulated gay magazine in Japan, from the 1970s through the 1990s.
See also
References
{{reflist|30em|refs=
|editor1-last= Tagame
|editor1-first= Gengoroh
|editor1-link= Gengoroh Tagame
|title= Gay Erotic Art in Japan Vol. 1: Artists From the Time of the Birth of Gay Magazines
|publisher= Pot Publishing
|publication-date=December 19, 2003
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|url= http://gaymanga.tumblr.com/post/51098364571/illustrations-by-go-hirano-%E5%B9%B3%E9%87%8E%E5%89%9B-go-hirano-is-a
|title= Illustrations by Go Hirano (平野剛)
|last= Kolbeins
|first= Graham
|date= May 22, 2013
|website= Gay Manga!
|access-date= November 23, 2018
}}
|url= http://www.japanesegayart.com/?page_id=1287
|title= Go Hirano
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|website= Japanese Gay Art
|access-date= November 23, 2018
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|url= https://www.tagame.org/historyof/contents/hirano.html
|title= 平野剛 Go HIRANO
|last= Tagame
|first= Gengoroh
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|website= History of Japanese Gay Erotic Art
|access-date= November 23, 2018
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Category:20th-century Japanese painters
Category:Japanese erotic artists
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Category:Year of death unknown
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