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NHK
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- NHK
Tokyo Pride 2025 aims to promote rights of sexual minorities
An LGBTQ+ event is being held in a park in Tokyo to promote understanding of gender diversity with the goal of achieving a society free of discrimination and prejudice. Tokyo Pride 2025, organized by a Tokyo-based NPO, got underway in Yoyogi Park in Shibuya Ward on Saturday. The event coincides with Pride Month celebrations in Japan, which aims to boost the rights of LGBTQ+ people. About 180 groups, including universities, companies and LGBTQ+ groups, are taking part in the two-day event, showcasing their activities and programs. Students from Ryukoku University in Kyoto asked attendees how they felt about the current situation surrounding sexual minorities. They had to identify one of three categories -- expectation, anxiety and anger -- and leave a message. On stage, pairs of women engaged in ballroom dancing which is traditionally danced by a man and a woman. One participant said while the LGBTQ issue seemed sensitive, learning about it at this event was fun. Pride Parade, one of features on Sunday, is scheduled to start at noon with people from the LGBTQ+ community and their supporters taking part.
ABC News
28-05-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
Kweensland. 1 by Ellen van Neerven
Kweensland. 1 is the first poem in a suite titled Kweensland: Sovereign Bodies and the Colonial Nation-State, which is about queer First Nations peoples and how traditional country does sit within the parameters of what is now called Queensland yet sovereignty was never ceded. It's about gender diversity before the ships came. About listening deeply to Dhagun and stories that have been silenced. These poems are an ode to what to some are small protests and small details, but to the poet, are revolutions. Ellen van Neerven belongs to the Mununjali Yugambeh people of south east Queensland. Ellen is an award-winning writer, editor and literary activist. They have authored three books including a new poetry collection Throat which explores different ways to be heard.
Wall Street Journal
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Democracy in Crisis at the DNC
Remember last winter when Democratic National Committee officials struggled to explain their convoluted rules on gender diversity to an uncomprehending public? Now DNC officials are implicitly saying that they didn't understand the rules either—and are laying the groundwork for a purge of two of the winners in the party's leadership elections. Is this still the party that presents itself as the guarantor of democracy? Dylan Wells and Patrick Svitek report for the Washington Post:
