I ’m just back from holidays in France and my fab friend Claire and I met up for one of our photo walks and this time we went around the 20th arrondissement (or borough if you want) of Paris. This is one of the areas we’ve been to with a lovely view of the city :) and it was wonderfully sunny!!
Boy, that day took me out of my comfort zone but it was really worth it. I took the train up to Chester to see a photo exhibition. The photographer was there and making a tour of an hour explaining every picture in the exhibition. Fascinating, interesting, enjoyable, you name it, it was fabulous!! I came here anxious, on my own, got lost, knowing noone and I left with so much happiness and joy around me. I happen to know the photographer in life and he is some sort of role model for me which made this extra special really. Then I got lost a few times but met some splendid people that went out of their way just to get me where I had to go, I also got into a religious talk with a guy from the church, and it was very interesting even if I told him my point of view he was very open minded about it, I even had the time to snap a few photos, here is one of them. All in all, really one of the best days of the year so far!!!
A participant holds a rainbow flag during the Rainbow Pride parade in Tokyo. Thousands of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders (LGBT) and their supporters participated in the parade on Sunday to celebrate LGBT lifestyle and denounce prejudice and discrimination against sexual minorities. Amnesty International Japan released a proposal Tuesday May 2, 2017 to the government on measures that the country must take to tackle discrimination against LGBT people: hiding one’s sexual orientation or gender identity is still common, due to a fear of losing one’s job or facing discrimination, both in the public and the private sector. On health, they asked the government to remove gender identity from the classification of mental diseases, to abolish inappropriate requirements for obtaining legal gender recognition, to educate medical experts, and to set certain health treatments required by transgender people to be covered by the national health insurance and public health systems. 07/05/2017-Tokyo, JAPAN