By David McNeill When I first me to Japan the 1990s, the gay muny seemed visible. There was no annual gay-rights para of the type seen i
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- GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
GAV NEWSOM F SCHOOL DISTRICT $1.5 LN FOR REJECTG MATERIALS MENTNG GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
California Gov. Gav Newsom followed through on threats to fe a school district for refg to adopt state-approved curriculum that featured gay rights activist Harvey Milk. * japan gay news *
The lg is fal and nnot be has fallen behd s global peers regnizg gay and transgenr rights.
It is the only member of the Group of 7 natns that has not legalized same-sex month, the Japane Parliament passed a bill that outlawed “unfair discrimatn” and promoted “unrstandg” of gay and transgenr people, a measure that rights advot emed sufficient and watered down om a bill submted natn’s urts have been more sympathetic to gay and transgenr rights. Ne stat have laws banng transgenr people om g bathrooms or other facili that align wh their genr inty at least some settgs, acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, a thk liberatns over the bill promotg unrstandg of gay and transgenr people the Diet, as Japan’s Parliament is known, nservative policians raised ncerns that the law might enable men to barge to women’s bathrooms and asslt Tuday after the cisn was released, some nservativ objected.
”She said pendg on how the language and spe of the cisn is terpreted, the se uld affect other rights for gay and transgenr people. Activists said that the Supreme Court cisn uld help nudge other pani and lol ernments to change their own l erng the e of rtrooms by transgenr lg uld help “lol ernments to make their own policy or their own ordanc, and many pani will follow the judgment, ” said Gon Matsunaka, a director and adviser to Pri Hoe Tokyo, a support center for the gay and transgenr muny.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
* japan gay news *
Gav Newsom followed through on his threats to fe the Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD), lnchg his next culture war attack agast nservative board members who rejected state-endorsed curriculum that allegedly mentns gay rights activist Harvey Milk. "GAVIN NEWSOM CELEBRATES ‘INCREDIBLE’ STORE CLAIMING TO SELL ‘BANNED’ BOOKS WHILE STUMPING FOR BIDEN IN IDAHO A close-up of Amerin polician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk (1930-1978) as he mpaigns for a posn on the San Francis Board of Supervisors September 1977. Opponents of the textbook argue that sex and homosexualy should not be tght materials for elementary school stunts, an argument emergg school districts across the natn as many ntue to clu LGBTQ+ ntent si the classroom.
Milk, the person ntentn, was the first gay man to w an electn San Francis. The cisn me a day after the US Senate passed a same-sex marriage protectn bill and Sgapore lifted a ban on gay sex but limed the prospects for legalizg same-sex marriage. When I first me to Japan the 1990s, the gay muny seemed visible.
There was no annual gay-rights para of the type seen many parts of Europe. There were no openly gay natnal lawmakers or sports figur.