Explore our gay travel gui to Japan featurg LGBTQ+ safety tips, gay rights , top ci & attractns, where to stay and more!
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SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS JAPAN IS GAG MOMENTUM
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. * japan gay laws *
Enomic lears have said they fear Japan will not be able to rema ternatnally petive whout greater diversy, cludg reprentatn for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny. 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.
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And this month, Thailand edged closer to beg the first place Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex unns when lawmakers passed four different bills aimg to provi greater rights to gay upl, such as the abily to adopt children and manage assets jotly. 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. Over the past six years, activists Japan have prsed the Diet, the natnal parliament, to troduce a nondiscrimatn law that protects the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people.
Japan’s cultural norms and s attus around homosexualy are difficult to terpret. LGBTQ+ travel expert Ed Salvato shows around the gayborhood and shar his safety tips.
Sexualy – homo or hetero – is nsired a private matter; It’s not flnted public displays of affectn or discsed. Bee of this, much of lol gay life is not jt hidn – ’s accsible. That said, homosexualy is legal Japan, wh small protectns for gays, lbians and even transgenr people enacted mostly on a lol level.