The Role of Media in Forming Negative Opinions of Society Related to LGBT Community (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender) in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/aicosh-19.2019.9How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Media, LGBT, society, social construction theory

Abstract

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are always underestimated and even discriminated by society. Many Indonesian people have not been able to accept and assume that LGBT is a dishonorable thing and violates the norms of religion and society. This view was caused by the many Indonesian media that reported negative news about LGBT. The media heralded the adverse effects on society, especially effect on children and adolescents who often use mass media. Although the media can give a big influence on society about the LGBT, but here the media is too extreme to discriminate against LGBT. LGBT behavior themselves do not always show frontal and do not always persuade even though there are now many same-sex couples who have publicly announced their relationship in the media. For example the gay community has its own way of looking for a partner called the gay-term of an instinct when finding someone who is also gay. There are also those who have joined a special community that indeed accommodates gays and for some who are still discreet, or do not declare themselves as gays among the public tend to choose to find friends on social networks specifically for them. In other words, not all LGBTs intend to influence and threaten the development of children and adolescents, but in some aspects of the media that are too excessive and the community is wrong in using media.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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