Sailor Moon and her girlfriend Sailor Neptune are one of the most popular queer couples in fantasy land. And now LGBTQ youth in Japan have adopted them as the centerpiece of their fast-growing cultural movement.
An early ‘90s comic book probably isn’t the first place we’d look for an antidote to modern day intolerance. But like one trans rights activist says, “It’s an imaginary world where gender and sexuality are often very fluid.” That story of magic, transformation and community is exactly what makes it perfect for the job.
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“Before reading that comic book, I thought that I was different and I tried to hide it” says a 17-year-old transgirl from Osaka, “but once I read the comic book I started to think it’s OK to be different and it completely changed how I thought about myself.”
We know there’s a lot of work still to do, but this is the kind of stuff that inspires hope for the future of not just the LGBTQ community, but all of us. Worldwide.
