Oh god, your entire first paragraph, so much THIS. I wish I had an article on hand, but I def remember something saying that upwards of 90 fucking % of Japanese gay people kill themselves because, while Japanese culture isn't the bastion of religiousity that the US is, it's still very damaging to not be the norm because of the group-centered culture (and I imagine the statistics for trans/non-gender-binary folk are as bad, if not worse).

I mean, I can get that having your sexuality being considered weird is "better" than being told you're going to hell for it (shit, I know I'd take the former over the latter most any day, christly fuck), but it's still problematic, if in a different way.