In a society where pressure for conformity is strong, many gay people hide their sexuality, fearing prejudice at home, school or work. The obstacles are even higher for transgender people in the highly gender-specific society.
But while the law and many lawmakers lag behind, public acceptance of sexual diversity and same-sex marriage has grown in Japan. According to an October, 2018 survey by the advertising agency Dentsu, more than 70 percent of the 6,229 respondents aged 20-59 said they support legalizing same-sex marriage.
or someone just forgot to make a heart tail lol. STILL CUTE :V
this is the part in the episode where all the female pikachus are off greeting ash’s. all the pikachus in the background are males including these two lil guys
Reblog if your happy for these
Gay Pikachus
If you’ve heard about the pika boyfriends, you should also hear about…
“Becoming Visible: The First Black Lesbian Conference” poster (1980). Oakland Museum of California.
“The purpose of the conference is to create a national network for black women, to reach black lesbians who live in isolated areas, to educate ourselves, and to affirm our individuality … We’ve run into black lesbians who live in areas where they don’t meet other black lesbians, or if they do there might be one or two and they’re not politically active. Women need to know that there are other black lesbians out there; we’re not visible in the communities at all. We’re not visible as black lesbians in the gay community, and we’re not visible as lesbians in the black community … We would like to communicate with each other, help each other to be stronger in the communities, become more visible politically and socially, and the only way to do that is for us to know how to reach each other. Our theme is ‘Becoming Visible,’ and what it means is we would like to become visible to each other. If we become visible to ourselves, then that’s the beginning of becoming visible in the community.“
— Marie Renfro, conference organizer, in an interview on The Gay Life radio series (October 11, 1980).
“Nearly 200 Black women from across the country attended the historic event. The conference was an outgrowth of the first National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference held in Washington, D.C. in October of last year. One of the stated goals was to address the varied needs of Black Lesbians and, ‘to provide the courage and strength necessary to make those needs felt in places where it becomes necessary.’ Two days of workshops addressed basic issues and problems relevant to Black Lesbians including, ‘Black women and Imperialism,’ ‘Interracial Relationships,’ and ‘Black Women and Feminism.’ There was also a workshop aimed at teenage Lesbians. Noted activist Angela Davis delivered the keynote address and called the conference ‘a turning point in the women’s movement and an historic event for all Black people.’”
— “Making History in SF: The First Black Lesbian Conference,” Chi Hughes, Blacklight, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1981).
Lesbian film Rafiki has shattered box office records in Kenya – after a government ban was lifted for one week only.
The lesbian love story from director Wanuri Kahiu debuted to international acclaim at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, but the film was banned in its home country after state censors took exception to the “homosexual” themes.
Under Academy Awards rules, submissions to the Best Foreign Language
Film category “must be first released in the country submitting it… and
be first publicly exhibited for at least seven consecutive days in a
commercial motion picture theater.”
The film is now again banned in the country, following the end of the
seven-day exemption – but in a final humiliation for state media
censors, it was revealed that the film dominated the country’s box
office in the period it was released.
Rafiki was the top performing film in Kenya for the week it was unbanned, edging out major Hollywood blockbusters The Nun and Night School.
The film grossed more than $33,000 in its week of release, with more than 6,500 tickets sold.
The start of the film was greeted by raucous applause at screenings,
while the crowds “laughed and booed” at the logo of the Kenya Film
Classification Board—the body that suppressed its release.
The re-imposed ban makes it an offence to even own a copy of the film in the country.
