The global Covid-19 pandemic has strongly impacted social practices, relocating communications and social networks into the digital space. Contextualized in such impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the local LGBT* activism in Japan achieved a special momentum: both the acceleration of the socio-spatial relocation of LGBT* activism to the digital space and the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 by 1 year enabled activists to mobilize people domestically and globally. The pandemic was not the actual cause or driver of the local LGBT* activism, yet it has been an important catalyst for the transnationalization of the local movement in Japan, pushing evidently the spatial boundaries to achieve broader public outreach but in turn also receiving stronger support from the global community through transnational networks. This study explores novel dynamics of spatiality and temporality of social transformations through the Covid-19-induced increase in global digital connectedness as well as transnationalization of local actions.

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Covid-19 大流行对日本及其他地区 LGBT* 激进主义跨国化的影响

全球 Covid-19 大流行对社会实践产生了强烈影响，将通信和社交网络重新定位到数字空间。在 Covid-19 大流行的这种影响背景下，日本当地的 LGBT* 激进主义取得了特殊的势头：LGBT* 激进主义的社会空间迁移加速到数字空间，并将 2020 年东京奥运会推迟 1这一年使活动家能够在国内和全球动员人们。大流行不是当地 LGBT* 激进主义的真正原因或驱动力，但它一直是日本当地运动跨国化的重要催化剂，明显突破了空间界限以实现更广泛的公众影响，但反过来也得到了更强有力的支持通过跨国网络来自全球社区。