Review of Related Studies
journal. This article created the survey of qualifications of AIDS patients. How AIDS came to the United States and the statistics of the originated people who
came from Europeans, Africa and Asia, and the cause of AIDS at that time which is still unknown. According to this journal, there are some indication of
a person that gets this disease. There are also some effects on the public. Many AIDS victims have been fired from their jobs, driven out from their home by
terrified and ashamed families, and abandoned by similarly disposed lovers. The body of patient often disowned by family, and even the funeral director
refuse to the handle their bodies as seen in the The Normal Heart the movie. The media have played a role in feeding the public a huge amount of
sometimes misleading information. Eventually, most AIDS patient only contacted with their nurse with their masks, and gloves. The effects of the
attitudes towards the patient are horrible. From subtle cognitive changes, lack of sex drives and withdrawal from the society, this journal helps the researcher
to show the impact of AIDS in New York from the Psycho – Social Aspects
since AIDS is not simply a concern for scientists, doctors and medical researchers, it has important social dimensions as well. And from the data of
this journal helps the researcher to analyze other aspects aside from the loss of the New York citizens Problem Formulation no.1.
The third entry of the related studies is a dissertation written by Jessica De Young Kander entitled:
Reading Queer Subtext in Children’s Literature: Finding LGBT Voices in Literature for Children and Young Adults. This
project is about how the children and adolescent especially those with lesbian,
gay, bisexual andor transgendered LGBT identities to find depictions of queerness in subtext underlying seemingly ―straight‖ texts. This journal
analyze on how these children and teenagers can see children books as a queer literary work. The researcher
uses five children‘s texts: Ferdinand, Elmer, Ivy and Bean, Speak, and Harry Potter. These examples are used to illustrate
binaries in our culture between what is considered normative the expected norm and identities that are labeled as deviant in opposition to the constructed
norms. She uses Queer theory as a ‗surgical equipment‘ to identify the children literature one by one. As a result, each of the children text which can
identify as a ‗straight‘ text can be seen as a Queer text also. The dissertation by Jessica De Young Kander helps the researcher to use the Queer theory as an
analytical tool as seen on her dissertation.