soft lockdown with a visit to a love hotel, where couples pay for short stays to have sex.But rather than the carefree time they had anticipated, the couple, in their mid-30s, did not even get as far as the door to their room.“The receptionist was very polite,” one of the men told the Kobe Shimbun. “He just said men aren’t allowed.” An attempt to find a room at another love hotel nearby also ended in disappointment.
But this time the language was overtly homophobic.“Gay men don’t use the facilities properly,” the female receptionist reportedly told them, without explanation. “It was a clear case of discrimination,” the man, who has not been named, told the newspaper.