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Lawmaker Exposes Homophobia in Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party Luke Gardner News January 16, 2019 0A legislator in Japan is facing backlash after his controversial comments about LGBTQ people. Katsuei Hirasawa was attending a gathering...
Tokyo Passes Anti-Discrimination Law Katie Burkholder News October 8, 2018 0When Yuriko Koike was elected Governor of Tokyo in 2016, she wrote that she believed that the 2020 Olympic Games...
Japanese Politicians Denounce Anti-LGBTQ Diet Member Jason Rhode National September 12, 2018 0Japanese civil rights advocates and politicians have publicly condemned anti-LGBTQ statements made by Diet Member Mio Sugita. They have asked...
5 LGBT things you need to know today, June 21 Georgia Voice 5 LGBT Things June 21, 2017 01. Rhode Island Teacher of the Year Nikos Giannopoulos became a household name when he posed “visibly gay” alongside President...
5 LGBT things you need to know today, March 24 Georgia Voice 5 LGBT Things March 24, 2017 01. An eighth transgender woman was murdered this week. Alphonza “Peaches” Watson of Baltimore, Maryland, was shot and killed Wednesday....
5 LGBT things you need to know today, March 6 Georgia Voice 5 LGBT Things March 6, 2017 01. Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Massachusetts) is the new leader of the US House’s relaunched Transgender Task Force, which seeks...