"UNTHINKABLE TO COME OUT"The first Pride House – inspired by the tradition of Olympic hospitality centres for national teams – was launched at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.Temporary venues have since appeared at London 2012 and Rio 2016, and at other international sporting events like the Commonwealth Games.In 2014, Russian authorities denied a request to open a Pride House at the Sochi Winter Games, the organisation said.
Instead, remote spaces were set up internationally for LGBTQ fans to gather.Those involved in setting up the Tokyo Pride House include Fumino Sugiyama, a former athlete who was on the national women's fencing team before coming out as a transgender man."When I was fencing, it was unthinkable to come out in the sports.