Taiga Ishikawa

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Taiga Ishikawa (b. 1974) is a Japanese politician and LGBT activist. He became the first openly gay male politician to win an election in Japanese history when he was elected in April 2011 to a seat in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly representing Toshima ward.

He previously served as an aide to Mizuho Fukushima, and founded the gay male support organization Peer Friends. He came out in 2002 at the age of 28 through a memoir, Where is My Boyfriend?.

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