>>27878588It went from romanticizing gayness, especially male-on-male between Kamakura and Edo (Samurai bromances are almost identical to Spartan bromances), had an actual homophobic phase during the imperial era, mostly as taking after the west and then had some sort of rebirth in fiction. Today it is just like you've said, in most cases they just don't give a fuck, as faggotry's been a normal thing for a very long time. Of course there were and will be special cases like expecting some sort of high-status heir to actually get married and have children, they don't always get the gay pass.
