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“LGBT issues” and the 2020 Games

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Claire Maree
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The forthcoming 2020 Games are a critical moment in the implementation of diversity and inclusion strategies targeting sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) related issues in Japan. However, the resultant “hypervisibility” of “LGBT issues” has led to an increasing “invisibility” of those who supposedly fail to fit LGBT narratives that pivot on specific forms of consumerism, internationalism and globalized diversity from which the “issues” purport to arise.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , February 2020 , e7
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