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their dreams again" and their voice of joy rises, Higashi and her partner later visited Tokyo
Disneyland to express their gratitude. The incident became "one of the major movements representing 2012 for the (LGBT) community", in the same year Higashi and her partner received the Tokyo SuperStar Awards Community Award in which it recognizes people or organizations that contributed to the development of the LGBT culture or community. Later on 1 March 2013, Higashi cited the ceremony at Tokyo DisneySea, and became the first couple who made the same-sex wedding ceremony at Disney Resort in Japan.
243:" to same-sex couples, after its assembly voted in favour of an ordinance containing this policy on 31 March 2015. Applications for these certificates started on 28 October of the same year. Higashi and her partner applied for the certificate and on 5 November they became the first couple to receive such a certificate from a Japanese municipality. While the policy of LGBT partnership systems has been spreading across Japan and hundreds of other couples have followed in Higashi's footsteps, she and her partner have since split up and returned their partnership certificate to Shibuya Ward.
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in the United States, Higashi withdrew her previous answer and said that a "wedding with the same sex is possible", and publicly announced that it was not a special case and that weddings by same-sex couples can also be admitted at Tokyo
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opens wedding ceremonies for ordinary guests in the park. Upon this, Higashi contacted the resort to have a same-sex wedding, although the use of same-sex was said to be satisfactory, due to the "influence on ordinary customers", they answered that either one had to wear a
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