"Pitfalls facing gay recruits overseas"

There's an interesting letter in today's Financial Times high-lighting some of the special problems gay staff with long-term partners may face when endeavouring to have their partners accompany them on overseas assignments. The case in the letter is not about some backward country, but the second economy in the world, Japan, which decided it no longer wished to allow a gay partner living there with his 'spouse' to re-enter the country after a trip abroad.