1. What is the issue you plan to research and write about?
I am planning to research and write about Sexual Minority. The main research question to this issue is “How can they (=Sexual Minority) live a better life in the present world?”
2. Why is the issue important? What is the significance?
Sexual minority, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, is getting to know in recent years by media. However, there are still many problems which should be reconsidered. One of those problems is sexual minority’s rights. Compared to sexual majority, their rights are still unequal (for example, 1.difficulty of changing the sex in their family registration, 2. marriage between gay or lesbian, 3. regulation about the sex change operation). Their rights should be equal because this unequal situation makes them difficult to live in the present world.
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I’ll talk more specific details in the next question!
3. Why are you interested in this? What’s the connection to YOU?
As mentioned above, sexual minority is getting to know in recent years by media. There are many films about gay, and especially in Japan, many transgender TV stars play an active part in the variety TV programs (for example, Ai Haruna, Ikko, and Kayo Sato are famous!). However, many people still don’t have correct understanding toward them.I want to ask my blog reader one question.
Can you tell the difference between lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender?
Actually, I couldn’t answer the difference between those two categories before I took the class, Gender in Everyday Life, in ICU. At that time, I noticed how thoughtless my understanding of sexual minority was. Like me, people who are sexual majority tend to assume they understand sexual minority due to the spread of the word thorough media, but when they are asked to tell the difference they actually cannot answer. This is another reason why sexual minority is still difficult to live in present world.
One day in Gender in Everyday Life class, our teacher taught us that sexual minority is actually making an action to change this bad situation. IDAHO, International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, is one of the world-scale action. When I saw their activities and promotion clip, I was surprised how hopeful they are and thought that not only sexual minority, but also sexual majority must make an action to change the world.
From Gender in Everyday Life class, my viewpoint of sexual minority changed, and my understanding deepened. I thought I want to learn and think about them more thorough this essay.
4. What questions do you have about this issue? What do you want to find out?
l Why it is difficult to change sexual minority’s rights?
l What sexual minority actually hope for the change to make their life better?
l What is the purpose of IDAHO’s activity?
l How sexual minority’s rights are Different between country
l More specific detail about sexual majority and sexual minority
→Is there clear border line between the two?
l Statistics of how many people misunderstand sexual minority
l The ideal world for sexual minority
5. What English sources have you found regarding this issue?
Karen E. Lovaas LGBT STUDIES AND QUEER THEORY, 2006
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