Pride House Tokyo 2020 to open
in Shinjuku in April!
Pride House Tokyo aims to raise awareness of LGBTQ issues through the creation of temporary hospitality spaces, hosting of events, and production of diverse content, while taking advantage of the opportunities available during the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics and working across corporate, individual activists and organizational sectors.
Further we hope to leave behind a legacy beyond 2020 in the form of a permanent location where the next generation of LGBTQ youths can gather safely.
The Pride House Tokyo consortium will be opening the Pride House Tokyo 2020 for five months from mid-April to mid-September on the first floor of the Shinjuku Marui Annex, a commercial complex in Shinjuku 3-Chome. (Address: 3-1-26 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
Cooperating across sectors between non-profit organizations, activists, specialists, companies, embassies and municipalities, we aim to maximize our impact in creating a diverse legacy for all in society and which will remain in people’s hearts.
Pride House Tokyo 2020 is currently sponsored by 10 corporations and 18 embassies. Together with 26 LGBTQ and other NPOs and individuals, we have divided ourselves into seven teams collaborating on seven different projects namely, “Education and diversity awareness”, “Culture, History and Archives”, “Sexual Health & Consultation”, “Athlete messages”, “Festivals, Sports events & Volunteers”, “Safe Spaces” and “Framework for Sustainability”.
A detailed schedule of our activities will be available at a later date on our website and through social media.
Pride House Tokyo 2020
| Place： | Shinjuku Marui Annex 1st Floor Space |
|---|---|
| Address： | 3-1-26 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo |
| Duration： | Mid-April, 2020 〜 Mid-September (Precise dates TBC) |
◆「Pride House Tokyo」consortium（※Japanese alphabetic order）
■Corporations
<Rainbow sponsors>
EY Japan, Cisco Systems G.K., Dai Nippon Printing Co.,Ltd., Nomura Holdings Inc., Panasonic Corp.
<Diamond Sponsors>
Nippon Life Insurance Company
<Gold Sponsors>
Asahi Breweries, NTT Group, Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd., Mizuho Financial Group
■Embassies
Special support from the Embassy of the Netherlands in Japan.
<Nominal support>
Embassy of the United States of America, Embassy of Iceland, Embassy of Ireland, British Embassy Tokyo, Embassy of Israel, Embassy of Australia Tokyo, Delegation of the European Union to Japan, Embassy of Canada, Embassy of Sweden, Embassy of Spain, Royal Danish Embassy, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Embassy of New Zealand, Norwegian Embassy, Embassy of Finland, Embassy of France, Embassy of Mexico (in Japanese alphabetic order).
■NPO・Individuals （22 Organizations／4 individuals)
NPO akta（Head：Kohta Iwahashi）, NPO ETIC （Head：Haruo Miyagi ）, NPO Colorful change lab（Head：Nobuhisa Miura）, NPO Good Ageing Yells（Head ：Gon Matsunaka）, NPO Greenbird（Head：Keisuke Fukuda）, Thousand Books PRIDE Series（Head：Kazutaka Koga）, NPO GEWEL（Representative Director：Kuniko Muramatsu）, Sports & Life Promotion Foundation（Head：Toshiya Takeda）, NPO Tokyo Rainbow Pride（Co-heads：Fumino Sugiyama, Natsumi Yamada), Dokusho Salon（Head：Aoi Yasuda）, Nijiiro Kazoku (Head：Haru Ono）, NPO Nijiiro Diversity（Head：Maki Muraki), NPO JaNP+（Head：Yosuke Takaku）, NPO Heartschool（Head：Fumino Sugiyama）, Fruits in Suits（Head：Loren Fykes）, NPO Place Tokyo（Head：Yuzuru Ikushima）,Broken Rainbow - Japan（Head：Shoko Usami）, Mushimegane no Kai（Head：Shigeyoshi Suzuki）, University Diversity Alliance (Head: Hiroya Igarashi), NPO ReBit（Head：Mika Yakushi）, NPO Rainbow Reel（Head ：Hideki Miyazaki）, NPO Rainbow Community coLLabo（Head：Hiromi Hatogai）, Tomoya Asanuma（Transgender activist）,Asao Tokolo（Artist）, Hiroshi Hasegawa（Magazine editor）, Junko Mitsuhashi（Sex & Social Cultural History Researcher/Meiji Uni. adjunct professor)
