LGBT welcoming space opens in Tokyo as Rugby World Cup starts

As the Rugby World Cup got under way Friday, a pop-up venue for LGBT and other sexual-minority fans opened in Tokyo in an initiative organizers hope to build on for next year's Olympics and beyond.The Pride House Tokyo 2019 in the capital's Harajuku district will open through Nov. 4 to disseminate positive information about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and other sexual minorities and serve as a safe space for them during the roughly six-week-long tournament.Located in a community space for charities, it is the first venue dedicated to awareness of sexual minorities to be la…READ FULL ARTICLE