It’s a signifint and emotnal moment Japan for a urt to affirm the digny of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny such clear and unambiguo terms.
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- JAPAN’S SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE IS SOARG. BUT CAN IT BEE LAW?
- COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
- EQUAL UNR THE LAW: JAPAN’S STGGL WH GAY MARRIAGE
JAPAN’S SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE IS SOARG. BUT CAN IT BEE LAW?
A Japane urt led on Wednday that the ernment's ban on gay marriage is unnstutnal, a landmark cisn that supporters hope will pave the way for marriage equaly the only G-7 natn to not fully regnize same-sex partnerships. "Legal benefs stemmg om marriag should equally benef both homosexuals and heterosexuals, " the urt said, acrdg to the AP.
" Sce 2015, certa Japane municipali have issued "partnership certifit" to gay and lbian upl, which do not nfer legal stat equivalent to marriage but allow for shared rental agreements and hospal visatn rights. " Kanako Otsuji, an opposn party member and one of Japan's few openly gay policians, said a tweet reported by The Guardian that she was "tly, tly happy" about the verdict, and urged the legislature to "liberate a proposed amendment to the civil to make same-sex marriage possible. The Tim not that while gay sex has been legal Japan sce 1880, social stigma means many members of the LGBT muny fd hard to e out even to their fai.
Lee/The New York TimTOKYO — Ikuo Sato stood ont of a Tokyo urt April and told the world he was gay.
COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
His fay and -workers do not know he is gay, and he hop — at least for now — to keep that way, fearg discrimatn his uple’s story epomiz the ntradictns that shape the liv of gay people across Japan. Gay people face overwhelmg prsure to nform to the silent, stiflg norms of a society which many parents and workers are still unfortable wh the ia of their own children and lleagu beg gay.
“The Japane people thk we should regnize same-sex marriage, ” said Taiga Ishikawa, who July beme the first openly gay man elected to the untry’s Parliament. The survey, by the advertisg giant Dentsu, found that more than half of gay men and lbians Japan were ncerned about g out.
In an terview wh Shcho 45, a nservative magaze, a lawmaker, M Suga, dismissed gay men and lbians as “unproductive” members of society who would not bear children.
EQUAL UNR THE LAW: JAPAN’S STGGL WH GAY MARRIAGE
Suga speculated that regnizg same-sex marriage uld e Japan to llapse as fac a growg populatn remarks were wily publicized, raisg awarens of discrimatn agast gay people, said Alexanr Dmrenko, a Canadian lawyer and rint of Tokyo who has been a proment advote of same-sex marriage. “It was like Japan’s Stonewall, ” he said, referrg to the 1969 police raid and followg protts that set off the gay rights movement the Uned Stat. “boom, ” Kazuya Kawaguchi, a soclogy profsor at Hiroshima Shudo Universy, poted to two televisn dramas featurg the liv of gay men — “Ossan’s Love” and “What Did You Eat Yterday?