The expectation that they will be rejected means many gay men have come to regard love hotels as off-limits, according to one member of Tokyo’s LGBT community, who told the Guardian: “Nothing dampens the prospect of a romantic evening out more than a homophobic hotel policy.”Īkira Nishiyama, assistant executive director of the Japan Alliance for LGBT Legislation, said hotel rejections of same-sex couples were common, even though it is illegal under a 2018 revision to the hotel business law, which states that hotels “should not reject guests on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity”.
Taiga Ishikawa, Japan’s first openly gay MP, estimated that of 143 love hotels in Tokyo’s Toshima ward, where he began his career as an assembly member, 30 refused entry to same-sex couples. While Japan’s thousands of love hotels welcome millions of heterosexual couples in search of the privacy and intimacy denied them at home, gay couples say they are routinely turned away.ĭespite rising awareness of LGBT rights, Japan is the only G7 country that does not recognise same-sex marriages, and much of the country’s multibillion-dollar love hotel industry accepts only heterosexual couples. He and his partner, who are in a civil partnership recognised by the local government, are not alone. “We were being treated like second-class citizens.” “It was a clear case of discrimination,” the man, who has not been named, told the newspaper.
“Gay men don’t use the facilities properly,” the female receptionist reportedly told them, without explanation. But this time the language was overtly homophobic. “He just said men aren’t allowed.” An attempt to find a room at another love hotel nearby also ended in disappointment. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.“The receptionist was very polite,” one of the men told the Kobe Shimbun. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here.
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