Concealment And Revelation:Social Interaction Research About J City’s Gay Men

With the "homosexual marriage" legal case, "gay’ wives group", the spread of AIDS, gay friend and Fujoshi culture are prevail in the society, homosexual community that often by the public’s ridicule and blame has become much media favor, social controversy and academic circle’ focus object because he has been regarded as "sexual perversion" and "unnatural" for a long time. It is different from traditional heterosexual as a sexual orientation aspect, but has absolutely huge sub-cultural group, the homosexual phenomenon has always been widely exists in all kinds of culture and civilization history. However, in domestic, it is still continue to conceal within mainstream heterosexual culture group as the role of marginal person until now. But, with impetus of the international gay rights movement, the establishment of the virtual network homosexual community and the edification of gender diversity concept, their self identity and plight than in the past have changed considerably in our country. Based on this,the thesis takes Zhejiang province J City’s gay men as the investigation object, by means of the method of online survey and field observation to probe into their interaction process, in order to understand what factors let them choose concealed communication or to the heterosexual disclose their homosexual orientation. Therefore, it is divided into seven parts:The f i rst part:introduction. It mainly introduce the author selected gay topic’s reason, gay related literature arrangement and with gay related concepts explain. In addition, the thesis also stated it’s research methods and significance.The second part:gay men’s social interaction process. The popularization of Internet and smart phone has prompted great changes have taken place in gay community members of the communicative methods and community environment. The traditional communicative way in the name of park, public toilets, gay bathrooms and gay bar were declined; and the new rapidly occupied the leading role, as well rapidly began to appeared divided into; and gradually formed with gay men as the main audience, such as:Blued, Jack’d and other professional gay APP software. Besides, the community environment’s changes constantly influenced gay men’s interaction dimensions and communicative circumstances, likewise impact on their attitudes certainty and behavior choice for circle environment and future lifestyle.The third part:gay men’s conceal communication. The thesis thinks that the two reasons impel community members choose anonymous communication. For one thing, it is a kind of self-protection practice about coping with stigma strategies. For another, it also is rational choice which they faced two different lifestyle and has cautiously made. In the concealable communication process, communication way’s change urged gay communication form from field gathered to individuation transition; also compelled traditional communicative methods will original "search"-"discover"-"screening" "review" function transfer to the new, only to play "confirm" function. But under park or similar field as communication core circumstances, choice public toilet, gay bathroom and hotel field separately on behalf of "confirmation" function different results in the gay interaction process.The fourth part:gay men’s openly coming out behavior. The thesis will domestic environment become relatively loose, not suitable for traditional heterosexual marriage and emotional release three factors respectively as prerequisite, foundation condition and the breaking point for gay to heterosexuality person frank and honest their homosexual orientation. Moreover, in the gay men’s coming out pattern and limits, most of them are choose take the initiative to come out; and their coming out object is mostly friends, brothers and sisters, mother and colleagues. Due to another members for change suddenly in the social communication process take passive coming out, their object is mainly primary life circle members, such as:spouse or mother and so on.The fifth part:gay men’s differences traits analysis. In the Socioeconomic status aspect, the occupation proportion of gay in the extra system is higher than in-system. The in-group member of high school education(or technical secondary school education), college degree and undergraduate education level have the highest initiative coming out percentage; and too low or too high education background of gay have relatively low initiative coming out proportion. In all levels income range, their active coming out of proportion is smaller. Among other traits, with the growth of age and sex role from passive to active until "6/9" change, their coming out proportion presenting a descending trend. However, In the marriage condition, married group has the lowest coming out probability, the xingshi marriage member has the highest coming out proportion.The sixth part:gay men’s social interaction consequences. From the micro-level analysis, professional gay communicative tool used widely make plenty of gay obtained self-identity in the gay community; spawned a huge "gay men wives" group. At the same time, it also makes lots of gay lose control of these communicative tools, and purely make sex as an exchange relationship. From the macro perspective, disorderly and promiscuous sexual behavior of circle members make them become the high-risk groups of HIV infection, this would reduce their group identity and belonging, what’s more, it will further result in its communication form showing fragmentation and non-organization characteristics.The seventh part:conclusion. In this thesis, it may be existed some deviations for instance survey sample representativeness, respondents’answer and academic concepts. In terms of sample representative, such as the elderly gay is only a smaller proportion in all respondents. Furthermore, some respondents are more sensitive to recall or privacy issues and may appear inconsistent with the facts or intentionally hide their answer in questions aspect. Finally, because of sexual orientation is a kind of self judgment, so there may be a few respondents exist wrongly cognition and judgment about whether himself as a gay or not.