The 1990s saw a surge of gay rights advocacy and acceptance, with many considering it 'the social-change issue of the 90s'. Fuzokukitan's editor, Mamiya Hiroshi, went on to contribute to the magazine Barazoku, and many artists who debuted in Fuzokukitan eventually ended up working for a privately published, limited circulation magazine, Bara. It also featured American physique magazines and artists, such as Tom of Finland. Though it included heterosexuals and lesbians, the magazine gradually increased its gay content and articles, and featured mostly male erotic cover art. Gengoroh Tagame, considered the most influential creator of gay manga, credits the beginning of modern gay erotic art to the fetish magazine Fuzokukitan which ran from 1960 to 1974.
