Background of Study INTRODUCTION

alter their appearance and the way they look, their speech patterns, gestures, manners and general bearing immediately give them away. The term homosexual started to rise in the late 19th century and has gradually increased in the 20th century. In the late 19th century, the gay community has emerged among people in America and has become one of the largest communities in New York City. The sexual liberation for gay community in the 1980s was haunted by the disease that today called AIDS. The Normal Heart is a play that was first premiered on April 21, 1985, Off- Broadway production. This story is about Ned Weeks, a gay writer, who struggles in pulling together an organization focused on raising the awareness of unidentified which kills a large amount of gay men. Larry Kramer, through his play, shows the gay community which focused on GMHC and Ned Weeks struggles to convince the US citizen that AIDS is a national plague which is not only can be brought by gay people only. The play also has some biographical parallels which are shown through the characters and the plot of the play. The objective of the study is to inform the readers how AIDS is very closely related to the rise of gay politics. The reflection of the setting and the development of the characters would allow the researcher to help evaluate the study in order to help the researcher depict the situation of that time in that era. The Normal Heart questions the government policy regarding the AIDS epidemic. It questions on how and why the government did not do much to eliminate AIDS. The only people who concerned with this epidemic is the gay community. How the gay community move between social aspects and started to speak in political area among gay and how the wider community sees it are reflected through the play. Until today, there are only speculations regarding the history behind the gay politics. With this study, the historical background and the social background of gay politics can be identified.

B. Problem Formulation

The researcher formulates two questions to help answer in the analysis, which are 1. How is the society described through the setting and the characters in The Normal Heart? 2. How is the rejection of the diseases related to the rejection of the homosexual itself through The Normal Heart?

C. Objectives of The Study

The main goal that the researcher attempts to achieve on this undergraduate thesis is not only to describe the social condition and political condition of the homosexual gay people but also to use the queer theory to elaborate the issues that are related with their sexual orientation and how they react in public, the society and their own society group or organization. The researcher aims to find the missing pieces that cause the plague spread widely in the U.S according to the play. Besides finding, the researcher also tries to analyze how these characters are aiming to find the solution on the plague spreading. Then after finding the relation of the political and social concerning the gay community, the queer theory would help the researcher to access the deviant act of these characters as the result of the changes in the political background.

D. Definition of Terms

Based on the stem, Gay Politics is described as the revolutionary ways based on the movement of homosexual who wanted to be involved in the politics in order to diminished the sexual orientation wall and to fight for equality everywhere especially in the political area Diamond: 1993. Most people believe that the political states directly related with the historical past of one geographical chapter, but these factors also coexist with the other, the more recent influences. On the case of Gay politics, the issues that the gay politicians tackle are mostly considered and revolves around gay matte