To a packed room, he described the anxiety he had felt as a young man, struggling to express his sexuality in Japan’s restrictive society. If the law is changed to allow same-sex marriage, he said, perhaps “we’ll make a society where the next generation doesn’t have to feel that way.”
US: National AIDS Memorial Becomes Steward of AIDS Memorial Quilt
U.N. awards Cyndi Lauper first social justice prize for LGBT+ work
Nigeria: 47 Nigerian men plead not guilty to homosexuality charge
Forty-seven Nigerian men pleaded innocent on Wednesday to a charge of public displays of affection with members of the same sex, an offence that carries a 10-year jail term. Homosexuality is outlawed in many socially conservative African societies where some religious groups brand it a corrupting Western import.