
Senior member of the Japan Alliance for LGBT Legislation, Natsuo Hayashi, third left, along with other LGBTQ activist groups' leaders, speaks to the media, holding copies of their Pride 7 communique, in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, April 21, 2023. The LGBTQ activist groups handed their first communique to a minister of awareness promotion, demanding Japan enact anti-discrimination law and legalize same-sex marriage to raise their human rights conditions to the international standard and line with six other Group of Seven countries ahead of the G-7 summit Japan hosts in May. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
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