Redux Shiho Shimoyamada News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Japan Failed to Improve LGBTQ Rights Ahead of the Olympics. Japanese Athletes Are Coming Out Anyway
Time
13 hrs ago
© Shiho Fukada The New York Times/Redux
Shiho Shimoyamada, a soccer player and one of a tiny handful of professional athletes in Japan who have publicly come out as gay, in Tokyo, May 31, 2021.
Shiho Shimoyamada had just moved from Japan to Germany to play soccer professionally in 2017 when German lawmakers voted to legalize same-sex marriage. She and her teammates were on the bus home from a match, and the news brought animated conversations from LGBTQ players about how the decision would improve their lives. ....

New York , United States , New Zealand , Keizo Mori , Megan Rapinoe , Kairi Murakami , Laurel Hubbard , Shiho Fukada , Tomomi Inada , Takashi Aoyama , Joe Biden , Fumino Sugiyama , Carl Nassib , Shiho Shimoyamada , States Kumi Yokoyama , Kumi Yokoyama , Redux Shiho Shimoyamada , Kat Farris , Yoshihide Suga , Yuri Igarashi , U Pew Research Center , Japan Alliance , Movement Can Learn From Japan , International Olympic Committee , Sports Press Photo , National Women Soccer League ,