Marriage and Upbringing Problems Faced by Chine LGBTQ People
-- the marital situation of xual minorities
Team TFLG: 黄天曼 (Tianman Huang), 颜嘉晨 (Jiachen Yan), 张扣扣 (Koko Zhang), 陈前蒙 (Qianmeng Chen), 陈午洋 (Wuyang Chen), 熊钦雯 (Qinwen Xiong), 颜卉宸 (Huichen Yan)
Introduction
In recent years, Chine society has displayed a higher acceptance rate towards gay people than in the past; more and more homoxuals have the nerve to disclo their xual orientation and xual identity. However, their relationships and marriage are still out of legal shelter. Struggling with the conflicts among government policies, societal pressures and personal preference, Chine gay people find it hard to pursue their own happiness.
Bad on our rearch, there are mainly three paths for homoxual individuals: Xinghun(comprid of a gay husband and a lesbian wife, living in an only ostensible marital life), maintaining celibacy, and Pianhun.(concealing one’s xual orientation and getting ma
rried with the opposite x). None of the three ways above leads to the welfare of gay people. They therefore stumble and suffer from the issues concerning marriage and upbringing.
During our rearch, we interviewed some LGBTQ people to delve into their struggle and figure out sources of various obstacles. Also, we designed a ries of questionnaire to investigate into the public opinions toward homoxual-related issues. In this review, we analyze the current situation of Chine xual minorities, factors leading to dilemma of LGBTQ, and then propo solutions to this social quagmire.
1. A Struggle Between External Pressure and Internal Pursuit.
Homoxuals are tortured by enormous pressure. According to a rearch conducted by Taishan Medical School, among the sources of pressure on homoxuals, 60.5% comes from social stigma, 44.2% comes from lack of lf-acceptance, 44.2% comes from family and 23.3% comes from “Marriage Urge”. Generally speaking, such pressure mostly stems from 3 aspects: lack of acceptance, adherence to traditions, and unrecognized leg
al status(Cong Zhong)
1.1 Lack of Acceptance
1.1.1Social Stigma
To a large degree, public views’ towards homoxuality are influenced by social media. In 2012, Fan Popo made a documentary Accompanied By the Rainbow (Zhao Han), which tells the stories of how mothers from 6 cities accepted their children’s homoxual identities. However, in 2014, this video, along with some other homoxual videos, can not be found on the internet. “The video was prohibited becau of some relevant regulations of The State Administration of Radio Film and Television of China”, says Fan’s lawyer Wang Qiushi, “Chine have categorized xual minorities as people who undermine the organization and morality of our society.”
His words were further proved on Feb.13th.2015. A program Dangerous Relationships was broadcast on the television program Legal Report(Legal Report), which indicates tha
t a large numbers of LGBTQ take drugs together via Gay Chat&Dating apps. Legal Report ascribes such behaviors as drug taking and spread of HIV to homoxuals, and regards gay friending apps as the source of crimes. Since Legal Report is the most authoritative legal program in China, the association of homoxuals with immoral behavior pos enormous pressure on LGBTQ people, who had already long been misunderstood. As a result, inaccurate information of xual minorities are spreading, and people are highly likely to be against homoxuality due to the influence of social media.
“I’m afraid of revealing my actual xual orientation” Quote from Their World( Lin Yinhe, Wang Xiaobo) “My neighbors may perceive my xuality as morbidity or even disability. I fear being despid due to my xual orientation.” Indeed, an accepting and friendly environment for gay men is still lacking; in a conrvative society, they are more likely to conceal their xual orientation.
1.1.2 Lack of lf-acceptance
Apart from low societal acceptance toward homoxuality, some homoxual individuals lack lf-acceptance as well. The people do not disclo their xual orientation but disgui as heteroxuals and even display homophobia.
To confirm this theory, Netta Weinstein from University of Esx, William S. Ryan from University of California, Santa Barbara, and Richard M. Ryan from University of Rochester conducted a ries of rearches. (Weinstein N) (Adams, H.E.)In the first stage, rearchers designed a survey investigating subjects’ lf-reported xual orientation, homophobia levels, and strictness of family’s education. In the cond stage, subjects had to respond to pictures of homoxual and heteroxual people, and associate them with either “mylf” or “other people”. Since the responding time is only within 35 milliconds, this test was to explore subjects’ implicit xual identities.
In the ensuing analysis, rearchers compared the results of the two stages. They found that the more strict homoxuals’ family education is, the more likely that they will conceal their xual orientation. Rearchers also found that homoxual people who an
nounce themlves as heteroxuals are highly associated with homophobia. The same phenomenon can be explained by situation in our region as well. Most homoxuals are educated in heteroxual family according to Chine traditions; in strictly educated family, as homoxuals make it clear their actual xual orientation, they may be anxious and terrified, and pretend to be interested in the opposite x. As a result, homoxuals may posss different implicit and explicit xual identities due to abnce of lf-acceptance, which renders them undergo undue pains and pressure while disguising as heteroxuals.
