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# LGBTQ+ information centre to open in Tokyo
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/lgbtq-information-centre-to-open-in-tokyo/
- Published: 2020-09-11T06:45:45.000Z
- Updated: 2020-09-11T06:39:05.000Z
- Description: The Pride House Tokyo Legacy is due to open its doors on October 11 2020 in time for the Tokyo Olympics 2021.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Travel, East Asia, japan, LGBTQ, Pride House, Tokyo

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**The Pride House Tokyo Legacy** is due to open its doors on **October 11 2020** in time for the **Tokyo Olympics** 2021\. Located in the **Shinjuku Ward**, the opening of the LGBTQ+ centre was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The facility will provide free information for queer people and space for counselling.

**The Pride House** movement was launched during the **Vancouver** 2010 Winter Olympics by local non-profit organisations with the aim to promote LGBTQ+ equality in sport. Pride House has continued to be part of the Olympic Movement with LGBTQ+ centres opening in cities that host the international sporting games.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/olympics600.jpg)

**Gon Matsunaka**, head of the Pride House Tokyo Consortium, [said](https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1098177/tokyo-2020-olympics-lgbt?ref=scenemag.co.uk) the centre will be a place for people who are not accepted by their families. It will remain active after the 2021 Olympic games conclude.

Same-sex relations have been legal in Japan since 1880 however marriage is still unrecognised. There are also no [protections](https://www.equaldex.com/region/japan?ref=scenemag.co.uk) against LGBTQ+ discrimination according to **Equaldex**. 25-year-old **Shiho Shimoyamada**, an openly queer women’s football player who is a member of the Pride House committee, hopes that the new LGBTQ+ centre will help Tokyo’s population understand more ‘about the importance of diversity’.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/tokyo-pride-600400.jpg)