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Contents:

• SHJU NICHOME: STRETCHG YOUR YEN THE GAYBORHOOD
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY TOKYO

SHJU NICHOME: STRETCHG YOUR YEN THE GAYBORHOOD

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.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

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.

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”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.

Shju Ni-Chome, Tokyo’s gay district, is famed for s high ncentratn of bars, clubs and eateri terg to the entire LGBT muny. Run by Japane gay culture pneer To Ogura, a wrer and magaze edor who is known as Margarette drag queen circl, ’s quickly bee the talk of the town.

An avid rear of Adonis, Japan’s olst gay magaze that once unted lerary tan Y Mishima among s ntributors, Ogura sat down wh to talk about his extensive archive of gay publitns. ‘That number might surprise you, but gay lerature is such a broad ncept. Ogura has been an avid bookworm sce childhood – ‘I read Y Mishima books as a kid, spe not havg any ia what he was talkg about, ’ he says – and always had wi-rangg terts, but he only turned to llectg wrg on gay culture after the ath of his lleague Ben Kimura.

GAY TOKYO

After years of ntributg to gay magaz, popular illtrator Kimura passed away 2003.

‘One day, a ctomer me to me lookg for the first gay-themed book he had ever read, ’ reunts Ogura.