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 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. “This is a good surprise for me and many homosexuals, ” Yayo Okano, a profsor at Doshisha Universy who specializ femist theory, tells TIME. Taiga Ishikawa, the first openly gay man elected to Japan’s Natnal Diet, tells TIME the se should ph the center-right ernment to take up the issue—bee the judg challenged the nstutnaly of nyg same-sex marriage rights.
“There’s still a lot of sual homophobia, sual homophobic kd of ments that that are heavily rooted and need to be examed as well.
Homosexualy has been legal Japan sce 1880, and the untry is relatively liberal pared wh some other Asian natns. 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.