No one knows what would happen next, so don't be upset, just enjoy things are changing and say "moikka".(it means "whatever" in Japanese but in Finnish, it's kind a word for greetings, funny:))
After reading this article, a simple question came to my mind, "Is there any space for calling out gay rights in Japan?"
Sadly, the answer would be close to "no" as far as I've been concerned. Indeed, the number of gay comedians showing up on television came to increase nowadays and this phenomenon might imply that there is more understanding toward gay people than before from the audience point of view.
However, I don't think the concept of gay rights aren't enough generalized in Japan compared with another Western countries where it can be picked up and being controversial through news. I feel that it's even still in a level that people hardly talk about here.
There should be more space for people who are homosexual to call out their rights and freedom of letting themselves as they are in daily life, in a school, at work, ...whatever occasion.
Being gay, lesbian, or bisexual don't mean a thing. I deem that it's just one of people's aspects as well as uniqueness that should be utterly free to express.
As there is always limit regarding amount of stuff which can be stocked in a closet, we sometimes have to make a decision what to throw away to take in something new. It's the hardest part to sort out things which is necessary or not for ourselves, who will highly possibly change in the future. However, the idea that we might use "this and that" in whatever occasion occurs in the near future should be reconsidered 'cause it leads us to think too much far rather than facing this present moment, then what happenes next is that wasted things fill us up and it could make us out of control.
For having our closet well arrenged, we need to do constant clean-up. For sure, it's exhausting process, taking a lot of time, and anyone hardly take the initiative for doing that. But this is something very significant point if we'd like to keep ourselves as fresh as possible.
Imagine the situation to fill up a bathtub with the hot water, and then again imagine the situation to drain off the hot water from a bathtub...interestingly enough, we tend to feel like that the speed of time's running is so different in between the former and the latter situation.