Japan LGBTQ activists push for equality law before Olympics : The Asahi Shimbun
Demonstrators protest to discrimination against sexual minorities in front of the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters building in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on May 30. (AP Photo) Japanese sexual minority groups and their supporters, in a last-ditch effort to get long-sought equality legislation passed before the Tokyo Olympics, submitted requests on Friday to the governing Liberal Democratic Party, whose conservative members have stalled the bill. The groups also have widened their campaign to gain corporate support for their cause in hopes of pressuring Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s pr...
Source: asahi.com
