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.
[1] Very little information is known about Hirano, as his works were submitted to his editors anonymously.
[2][3] His illustrations are noted for their realist art style, and often featured masculine men with body hair.
[1] His art appeared in Barazoku, the first commercially circulated gay magazine in Japan, from the 1970s through the 1990s.