Strategies for Maintaning Lesbian Partnership : Padang City, West Sumatra

DOI

10.2991/icsgs-18.2019.11How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Lesbian, Maintain Couple, Strategy

Abstract

This research investigates the status of lesbian couples in Padang City, Indonesia, an Islamic city where the government tries aggressively to eradicate any lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) community or activity. Moreover the people of Padang also reject lesbians’ very existence, thus making them hide their homosexual identity. Consequently, these women find it difficult to meet the partner they need for the fulfillment of their orientation with the same sex. This condition led to various strategies to maintain long-term relationships. The approach in this research was a qualitative case study. Resources were selected by purposive sampling and numbered six. Data were collected through observation and in-depth interviews. Data validity was ensured by triangulation. The data analysis technique was interactive analysis, as proposed by Miles and Huberman: data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. Findings indicate that the strategy of maintaining spouses among lesbians in Padang City are: (1) maintaining a partner with violence, (a) physical violence, (b) mental violence; (2) maintaining a partner with nonviolence, (a) sustaining a partner with material goods, (b) sustaining a partner with sexual fulfillment, (c) sustaining a partner by exposing affection on social 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tomy Lovendo
AU  - Tantri Adiwijaya
AU  - Alif Alfi Syahrin
AU  - Jeki Aridianto
AU  - Lily Andini
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - Strategies for Maintaning Lesbian Partnership : Padang City, West Sumatra
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Strategic and Global Studies (ICSGS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 75
EP  - 81
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icsgs-18.2019.11
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