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
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE
A. Review of Related Studies
Several studies have been done to analyze certain questions regarding gay politics and queer theory, among other, is the writer Steven Epstein with his
Gay Politics, Ethnic Identity: The Limits of Social Constructionism. This journal shows the contradictory ideas of answering the question about gay and
what it means to be gay or lesbian certainly testifies the difficulties of answering it. Sexuality is one of the main topics that this journal discusses.
This article does not only discuss what causes homosexuality or heterosexuality instead this article also explores how lesbians and gay men live on a day-to-day
basis and interpret their sexual desires and practices to situate themselves in the world. These theory and self-understanding may or may not block or shape the
political activism by gays. The idea of essentialist and constructionist understandings of gay identity also appear and discussed in this journal. It
discusses more about how gay politics related with the socially constructed contexts and the psychological aspects of homosexual from which helps the
researcher to analyze the grounds behind gay political movement. The second journal that used is written by Neil Deuchar called AIDS In
New York City with Particular Reference to the Psycho-Social Aspects. This article which is taken from British Journal of Psychiatry in 1984 shows data on
this epidemiological surveillance. This article shows data related to AIDS in New York City. Surveys nationwide related with AIDS are displayed in this
