11/11 update
[Full text of my letter to my sister]

When I received the letter from you for the first time ever, I knew what would be written inside. I really understand the place you are in.

The reason I participated in the TV show is not to debate with foreigners, but to send messages to people in front of TV, some suffering, others full of discrimination lack of information or only with curiosity.
Lots of young homosexual people, female or male, kill themselves. There are people who could not tolerate the discrimination and custom and forced themselves to marry someone who they don't really love. There also are people who think they might be sick. That's the present situation we are in. I know nothing will change and the public won't accept us by making statement on TV. But we have to make a first step to change something even if we were subjected to worse forms of discrimination.

When I was told that I could make my face obscured by a mosaic, I thought of you, dad and mom. I thought hard. Of course I thought of the risk.
To tell the truth, I know that my family and relatives don't really understand or support me. They are just ignoring and putting a lid on it. I am not blaming them. I know that my parents and you are trying to accept me and I am grateful for that.

I rejected putting mosaic on my face because I didn't want to hide when making statement via media. I am running a large website. As a representative who speaks to visitors and users of being active and positive, I should be reliable for my saying. I made this first step not for myself but for other i-on staffs, site users and young people of next generation. And of course I didn't put mosaic on because I am not ashamed of the way I am.

I am living as a lesbian. I don't care if people talked about it behind my back. I don' want to be discriminated and treated as criminal, psycho or abnormal person for not being majority and for not a heterosexual. I don't hide. I'm trying hard to make my life better. Why should I feel ashamed? Women are minority. Lesbian is minority among minority. I understand what it is like better than you.

If you despise me and don't want people to think us sisters, and if you are among conservative people and care the place you are in, please defend yourself.

You can tell to your family-in-law that I had been cut off so I was no longer your sister. Tell them that I was on TV as a part time extra and I have nothing to do with homosexuality, or whatever.

I know that I can't complain if I could not see your little girls no more. But if they asked me, I will tell them honestly. As I wrote before, I am not ashamed of the way I am.

It can't be helped if you get angry with me and my parents cut me off for this appearance on TV. I won't blame you and won't get the sulks.
Do as you want. And mom and dad can do as they want too.

As a human being, there is nothing I am ashamed of. I'm just living comfortable and free life as myself.

PS
Please visit the web site I am running.

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http://www.i-on.gr.jp/bravissima/
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http://www.i-on.gr.jp/AREA/
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There are people who desisted of killing oneself and got cheerful among who visited this web sites. And I think even a little I could help people who suffer.


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