Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2016

This video from Japan says about itself:

8 May 2016

JapanVisitor went to the Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2016: a celebration of sexual diversity. Thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender revelers paraded thought the streets of Tokyo on a sunny Sunday afternoon in May. Feel the pride!

According to this report, 70,000 people participated, a record number. A necessary counterweight to homophobia in Japan, including in the right-wing-Abe government.

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