Frustrated by Japan’s same-sex marriage ban, LGBTQ couples opt for ‘photo weddings’

[Rimmer]

Frustrated by Japan’s same-sex marriage ban, LGBTQ couples opt for ‘photo weddings’

 

A transgender couple hiding their faces with a bouquet as they pose for their wedding photos at Onestyle’s studio in Tokyo. PHOTO: REUTERS

 

TOKYO – Unable to get married legally in Japan, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) couples are celebrating their special bond by donning traditional kimonos and fashionable formal wear for elaborate “photo weddings”.

 

But these carefully choreographed images are often kept hidden in this conservative society, where many LGBTQ people say they face prejudice and stigma, even from their own families.

 

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[pacovl46]

Ridiculous. Somehow I've expected Japan to be much more lenient.

[john donson]

if both of the couple are transgender, but the really messed up  m to f and f to m, can they really not marry as hubby and wife, even they changed their sex by operations?