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.