ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates results of survey questions concerning participants’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, including COVID-19 infection, health and financial impacts, life disruption, perception of a threat, effect of social distancing measures, and family conflict and connection to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) community. Although the number of those infected with COVID-19 was small, there is no question that the lives of Japanese LGBTQ+ people are deeply affected by the pandemic, in particular, because of social distance measures, including stay-at-home orders, imposed by Japanese authorities. A chi-square of independence test was performed to examine the relationship between the effect of social distancing measures on participants’ lives and working in the distribution/retailing industry. A chi-square of independence test was performed to examine the relationship between the effect of social distancing measures at healthcare facility or health-care-related matters and JJ participants’ identification as Japanese race/ethnicity.
