Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage is not unnstutnal, a urt has led, alg a blow to gay upl and activists seekg greater rights for the LGBTQ muny.
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JAPAN’S SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE IS SOARG. BUT CAN IT BEE LAW?
The regnn has been slow to be adopted natnwi, amid very gradual cultural acceptance of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people Japan and throughout is the only untry the Group of Seven largt enomi not to regnize same-sex marriag.
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. Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage is not unnstutnal, a urt has led, alg a blow to gay upl and activists seekg greater rights for the LGBTQ muny. The lg of the Osaka urt dashed the hop of gay rights activists who are prsurg the ernment to rethk s opposn to same-sex marriage.
Japan, where homosexualy has been legal sce 1880, is relatively liberal pared to some Asian natns. For example, gay sex remas illegal Sgapore spe growg lls to change the lonial-era law. India’s Supreme Court led 2018 that gay sex was no longer a crimal offense.