In
June 26th, the United States Supreme Court ruled that same-sex
marriage rights are protected by the constitution, the United
States achieve the legalization of same-sex marriage. Same-sex
marriage immediately sparked global hot debate. In China, the news
immediately brush major topics and hot search list through
internet, and become the theme of town talk in
reality.
It is not difficult for us to find that, a greater number of
ordinary people concerned about this issue as well
as the gay and lesbian rights organizations.
Public discussion on the topic of homosexuality is a manifestation
of the ideological emancipation and social progress, breaking the
Chinese Society for a long time on the attitude of
silence, people began to face up to it, and take the initiative to
seek the possibility of dialogue.
Common sense is a prerequisite for equal dialogue and effective
communication, but homosexual in private suffered misunderstanding
and prejudice. In recent years,with the mainstream media getting
more freedom of speech, the younger generation mainly 80,90
after hold a more tolerant attitude to gay
people, understanding and respect for their way of life. But
according to an authoritative survey, understanding of
homosexuality in Chinese society, still exists a blind spot -- a
considerable part of the elderly population, economy less developed
area residents, education levels are low and religious personnel,
know nothing about homosexuality, these people even have an
attitude of discrimination and hostility.
Lacking of common sense is the root cause of prejudice and
discrimination, it makes it difficult for gay people to get rid of
bullying culture, stuck in the spirit of trouble, leading to the
differentiation, and intensify social contradictions at the same
time. In order to eliminate misunderstanding,government education
institutions in some developed countries suggest
that homosexual sex-related content input school
curriculum, textbook or set up a special classroom teaching
the knowledge on homosexuality.
open the fig leaf about homosexuality in sex
education classes, not to seduce minors to go astray, but to take
charge of their future. The development of the physical and
psychological is uncertain for
teens in puberty stage, by the popularity of gay knowledge
which can guide the children the right to face
their own sexual orientation, and cut off the source of
discrimination in campus.
Babu,
My foreign teacher told me that it is common
to bring gay-sex education into
the classroom in the Western countries. In Hong Kong and Taiwan,
there are many secondary schools to offer sex education courses in
specialized area, describes the knowledge of homosexuality,
and to help students comprehensive, scientific
understanding of the issue of homosexuality.
For young potentially
homosexual groups, learning courses to help them eliminate their
own sexual orientation confusion, resolve inner anxiety and fear,
regain confidence and courage to live. Safe sex course
assists them
to protect themselves better
in adulthood: to take the necessary security
measures in sexual activities, can effectively avoid bodily injury,
reduce the risk of disease transmission.
For young heterosexuals who learn knowledge of homosexuality, the
course would be a disenchantment process: homosexuality as a social
phenomenon, it has a long history with cultural foundations, it is
not the body or mental illness, and widely exist. Knowledge to
educate and help them take off their tainted glasses and eliminate
gay people fear and prejudice against homosexuals reduce school
violence and social discrimination.
Homosexuality is not alien in many countries in the
world, they achieved the
legalization of same-sex marriage, all the rights of LGBT
group are protected by law.
The degree of tolerance to homosexuality, which
directly reflects the development of a high degree of social
civilization. Embrace the beautiful ideal, I decided to accept the
invitation from Babu, to write
a bilingual
lesson plan introducing
the common sense of homosexual, filling out a
blank in Primary and Secondary
sex education .
It has been an important step for me, and for all.
The following is
the text :
A
Preliminary survey
on the history and present situation of
homosexuality
Homosexuality
is a hot topic in current world, because of the promotion by modern
media, the national homosexual liberation movement has been a
whirlwind of social effects.
The position and attitude towards homosexuality have been vague in
China. The attitude of people towards homosexuality is broadly
divided into three categories: Homosexuality is a crime or that it
is immoral; homosexuality is a disease or a perversion;
homosexuality is a lifestyle.
But, homosexuality as a basic human behavior patterns, it has been
a long history. An authority survey shows that : Whether in highly
developed countries, or in the original tribal areas, Whether under
a different political formation or cultural traditional context,
homosexuality is widespread.
1. Overview of the
homosexuality history
The concept of homosexuality in Western society is changing. In
ancient Western countries, such as Greece and the Mayan
civilization, to provide sexual services to homosexual prostitutes
are managed by the Church, and to achieve a high degree of
institutionalized religion. Even in ancient Greek culture, the
sexual behavior among men was listed as a part of the adolescent
education, homosexuality was considered in some way more advanced
than the heterosexual love form. In ancient Greek army, the love
between the soldiers is encouraged, so that it is more conducive to
the morale of the war on the
battlefield.
In China, the earliest historical records about homosexuality from
the Shang Dynasty. Gay first place in the court in ancient China,
with the passage of history gradually shifted to the literati and
the general social classes. Later, the government banned male
prostitution, male homosexual behavior occurred in the troupe of
actors. Actors in ancient China become the most important
dignitaries to have sex objects, this phenomenon in the folk long
time. This phenomenon in the folk exist for a long time.
The incidence of homosexuality is another issue of common concern
to the public. After an investigation, homosexual acts between
primates and race, regardless of the overall proportion have
occurred in the region of 10% to 12%, ratio reached basically
stable. Due to the increase in the homosexual movement and the
public understand the deepening of its people, the homosexual
community is gradually being accommodated, the LGBT groups have
access to more living space and the opportunity to express their
demands, their pursuit of Diversity led to the birth of the United
States in the last century 70's Queer culture, it became a
beautiful late 60 branches of various human rights movement, and
thus rise to political problems. In different political systems and
social environments, LGBT culture suffered a different treatment,
some of which have been punished, some are tolerant of acceptance.
With the advent of the information age, Queer culture began to
fight conventional monogamy, constructing new interpersonal
patterns in various cultures and societies.
In the attitude towards sex, the ancient people respect the
instinct, the modern emphasis on the importance of the object. In
the 18th and 19th centuries, homosexuality became a study of mental
illness. Today, a growing number of homosexuals began disclosing
their sexual orientation, the LGBT community is known to all the
heterosexual people. Requirement for equal gay rights in
employment, housing and public policy, and through the media
frequently sound in front of the public.
Nevertheless, there are still people think the homosexual community
is more harmful to the society than the behavior itself: Social
intolerance and lack of legal protection, makes this group with a
unique way to find quick sex partners, resulting in a large number
of unsafe sex, and ultimately affect the quality of life of
homosexuals, including the spread of disease and a variety of
ethical issues. This is a higher requirement for the modern legal
norms.
2. The
legal status of homosexuality
Because of the strong opposition to homosexuality by Christianity,
homosexuals have experienced all kinds of persecution in history
until the 19th century, Western societies harsh attitude towards
homosexuality began to change. Homosexual was finally recognized as
a group of particularity tendencies, and not as criminals or
patients.
World-renowned homosexual researcher Halperin said, gay people and
conventional main difference is: They do not pay attention to the
process of courtship, but focus more on sex itself, which is the
general form of interpersonal inspiring place. The lifestyle of the
homosexual people leads to their interpersonal relationship, family
relationship, value orientation, personal contacts, infiltrating
and influencing the whole social sex standard.
In China, people have been turning a blind eye attitude towards
homosexuality phenomenon, its purpose is to make homosexuality
disappears from people's view. At the same time, most homosexuals
do not want to be identified, thus causing this phenomenon does not
exist illusion. Few homosexuals into view, mostly originated from
disease or crime, reinforcing people's prejudice against
homosexual.
At present, China has no clear legal provisions to prohibit the
homosexuality, Voluntary homosexual activities between two adults,
rarely lead to legal sanctions as long as it does not involve over
three people or minors, or does not occur in public places.
However, given the uncertainty Chinese legal policy and social
pressure, homosexual people generally choose to keep a low profile
in the life. Currently, the greatest threat for homosexual is not
the legal sanction of law or the security police arrestment, but
administrative sanctions and disciplinary action. This is a special
control method in Chinese society.
Compared to Western countries severely oppose Christianity,
homosexuality in mainstream Chinese society has been neglected and
contempt, it has been a good situation in China. However, China's
homosexuals kept perfunctory attitude, hoping to hide in the
closet, unwilling to initiate drastic transformation. This "Mean"
philosophy of life rooted in traditional Chinese culture and
mentality, such situation will continue for some time in the
future. Over time, only to wait until the Western homosexual rights
movement has made more progress, with greater changes in more
people's views on homosexuality in the world, homosexuals in China
is likely to be accepted by mainstream society to a greater extent,
get better treatment.
3. Marriage status of homosexual
As of July 2015, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Spain, South
Africa, Portugal, Argentina, Iceland, Denmark, Brazil, England,
France, New Zealand, Uruguay, Scotland, Luxembourg, Finland,
Slovenia, Ireland, Mexico, the United States adopted a
same-sex marriage Act, marriage status of
homosexual has initially been improved.
Same-sex marriage law eliminating the homosexual prejudice and
injustice in law, to ensure that
same-sex couples legal marriage registration
procedures, Same-sex couples enjoy the same legal status
with heterosexual couples in
law since the marriage
registration.
China's marriage law does not recognize
same-sax marriage relationship, there is no
special law to regulate this part of social
relations. There is no statutory right of
inheritance between same-sex couples living together do not produce
as jointly owned property. Inheritance and property
relations between China's same-sex couple
are just ordinary civil
relations. In case of emergency, the same-sex
partners do not have the protection
of civil law, they also don't have the same
stability as a marriage in law.
As the traditional Chinese
fertility concept deeply
entrenched, same-sex marriage is far from the legislative agenda.
Many
homosexual people have to
be married with the opposite-sex people who are heterosexual,
raising children under fertility
pressure. Most such cases with the nature of
deception, leading the other heterosexuals can not enjoy a normal
family life, easy to breed crisis of family and social relations.
In view of this, many young gays and lesbians through the
introduction of a specific
organization, spontaneously
forming "Marriage of convenience",
Signing contract to stipulating both
sides in the marriage rights and obligations, in order to reduce
disharmonious factors besides fertility
problems.
In summary, homosexuality as a social phenomenon, has been more
widely accepted in the world. In China society, the status and
attitude towards homosexuality is still ambiguous.
With the evolution of the times, homosexuality in China will get
more living and
activity space. Only to
follow the world trend, take a
more positive view
of the homosexual community and
care for the LGBT group, can we make a correct
historical judgment of our own nation, effectively
achieve pluralism and tolerance.