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All-Star volleyball players settle their squabble with a kiss
The crowd cheered during their fight over who fouled, as it escalated into a face to face showdown, then cheered even louder when they kissed.
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Japanese elects its first out transgender man to public office
Transgender man Tomoya Hosoda, 25, was recently elected to the council in Iruma, Japan, a city of about 150,000 people.
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Gay Buddhist monk is also a makeup artist who helps trans people look their best
While Buddhist monks usually dress in an austere fashion, Nishimura believes, “It isn’t wrong if it helps you deliver your message to people.”
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Japanese snacks features kissing queer couples on their packaging
Two different manufactures have teamed up to create packaging that shows couples kissing when you put their products side by side.
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Together 30 years, gay couple weds in VA hospital when told it’s legal now
Right after the ceremony, Takashi had to leave his new husband behind in the hospital to return to Japan and hope he could get back to America in time.
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Panasonic grappling with criticism over LGBT policy shift
Panasonic, the first major Japanese company to start recognizing same-sex partnerships in its ranks, has gotten both praise and harshly negative responses to the new policy.
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Tokyo ward 1st in Japan to recognize same-sex marriage
With a landmark vote by the assembly of Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, the district famous as a mecca for trendy youngsters became the first locale in Japan to recognize same sex partnerships as the “equivalent of a marriage,”
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George Takei sees movement toward gay pride beginning in Japan
TOKYO — George Takei said he needed courage and anger to come out as gay and to join the equal rights movement for sexual minorities in the U.S., and he hopes his Japanese counterparts will do the same to make their society more equal. Takei said he has noticed a movement beginning in Japan, though the country of his ancestry has a long way to go.
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Japan’s First Lady joins thousands marching in Tokyo LGBT pride parade
TOKYO — Thousands gathered in Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya business and shopping district for LGBT Pride on Sunday.
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Asia leaders join Sochi, not put off by Russia’s human rights record
When top Western leaders decided to stay away from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Winter Olympics, he wasn’t exactly left friendless: he has the heads of leading Asian nations and others to help show the world that not everyone is put off by his human rights record and the anti-gay law he championed.