The Transparent and Family Closets: Gay Men and Lesbians and Their Families of Origin

Švab, Alenka; Kuhar, Roman

doi:10.1080/1550428x.2014.857553

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“…This type of homophobia targets sexual minorities in their own inner circles, including their own family members, relatives, friends, and colleagues (Schulman, 2009). This type of homophobia is not unique to Japan, as has been documented in a number of empirical studies by Western scholars (e.g., D'Amico & Julien, 2012; Svab & Kuhar, 2014;Willoughby, Doty, & Malik, 2010). However, because of the centrality of family in Japanese society, the Japanese family is the context where negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality are most often expressed and internalized.…”

Section: Pro-domestic Partnership Positionsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Same-Sex Marriage in Japan

Tamagawa

2015

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

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Despite its apparent gay friendliness, Japanese society has witnessed few public debates or social movements in support of same-sex marriage. It seems that Japanese scholars and activists are only just beginning to advocate the legal protection of homosexual couples. Although Japan has witnessed a few recent developments toward same-sex marriage, an anti-same sex marriage perspective seems to dominate, even among Japanese scholars and activists who are gay and lesbian themselves.In order to understand Japans slow progress toward same-sex marriage, this article examines the legality of same-sex marriage in Japan, Japans apparent lack of the political and historical progress of same-sex marriage in the West, and Japanese societal and cultural features including gay adoption, invisibility and heterosexism at work and in academia. This article also compares the current debates on the legal protection of same-sex couples in Japan and Japanese feminist criticism of the Japanese family, to explain the prevalence of the anti-same sex marriage position. Further, with the notion of familial homophobia by Shulman (2009), the traditional Japanese family is defined as the grounds for homophobia. Lastly, the possibility of legalizing same-sex marriage in Japan is discussed.

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Section: Pro-domestic Partnership Positionsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Same-Sex Marriage in Japan

Tamagawa

2015

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

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“…En el contexto de las sociedades mediterráneas, las familias de origen tienen un papel destacado en el desarrollo de la biografía personal (Alberdi, 1999) por lo que esa comunicación marca un hito importante en la historia personal y familiar (Pichardo, 2009). De ahí que se barajan todos los pros y los contras antes de tomar alguna decisión al respecto (LaSala, 2001;Legate, Ryan y Weinstein, 2012;Roughley y Alderson, 2012;Svab y Kuhar, 2014). En este sentido, se han identificado tres reacciones diferenciadas ante el desvelo de la opción sexual en el entorno familiar: aceptación incondicional asociada a unas relaciones familiares sólidas (Grafsky, 2014;Legate et al, 2012); aceptación progresiva tras superar un rechazo inicial (Baptist y Allen, 2008;Hank y Salzburger, 2015;LaSala, 2001) y, por último, desaprobación absoluta que se traduce en una pérdida del contacto y relación con las hijas e hijos no heterosexuales (Touroni y Coyle, 2002).…”

Section: 1comunicación En El Entorno Familiar De Origen Desvelar unclassified

“…En ocasiones, la aceptación de la que se ha hablado en el apartado anterior no traspasa los muros del hogar familiar; es lo que algunos autores y autoras han denominado el "armario de cristal" (Svab y Kuhar, 2014). Salir o traspasar ese armario implica hablar de forma abierta de sus hijos e hijas en el entorno social próximo.…”

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Displaying families. Significado y valor de las familias de origen en la homoparentalidad

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Berbén

2019

Política Soc.

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Las transformaciones científicas como los avances socio-políticos han supuesto una alternativa para acceder a la maternidad que va más allá de la existencia de una relación de pareja heterosexual. Esa ruptura con lo normativo genera dudas y miedos entre aquellas parejas que se plantean ser madres puede acabar condicionando la decisión final. Algunos de esas dudas parten de la reacción y respuesta que recibirán de su familia de origen. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el significado y el valor que las parejas del mismo sexo confieren a sus respectivas familias durante todo el proceso de formación de su unidad familiar independiente. Se llevó a cabo una investigación cualitativa con once parejas de mujeres que accedieron a la maternidad a través de la reproducción asistida. Los resultados indican que las familias de origen ocupan una posición central en sus vidas. Algunas familias vivieron la maternidad de sus hijas como un proceso que oscilaba entre el rechazo inicial y la aceptación final. Como parte de esa aceptación, las familias empleaban mecanismos para visibilizar sus relaciones. Siguiendo a Finch (2007), estos mecanismos se agrupan bajo la categoría de displaying families para reforzar las funciones y mecanismos familiares.

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“…Coming out of the closet does not always bring GLBT children out of the closet. Slovenian sociologists Svab and Kuhar (2014), through an analysis of the process of negotiating new family relations following coming out to the family of origin, explained the "family closet" as "a situation within the family of origin where family members are put into the closet in relation to the broader kinship network, neighbors, friends and acquaintances, colleagues from work, and other social and community contexts" (pp. 19-20).…”

Section: Previous Studies In English On Coming Out To Parentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coming Out of the Closet in Japan: An Exploratory Sociological Study

Tamagawa

2017

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

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Invisibility is a major obstacle to the improvement of the lives of GLBT individuals in contemporary Japanese society. Japanese GLBT scholars and activists attest that it is extremely difficult to come out of the closet in Japan. There is little systematic research, however, as to why. Using online survey data from 136 GLBT individuals in Japan, this article examines some of the reasons Japanese GLBT individuals cannot come out, especially to their parents. A coming-out experience score was created to assess the difficulty or favorability of various coming-out experiences. The data suggest that: (1) the majority of Japanese individuals consider coming out a desirable choice; (2) it is considerably more difficult to come out to parents than to coworkers or schoolmates; (3) between parents, although it is considered more difficult to come out to a father than to a mother, the experience of coming out to a mother is significantly less favorable than the experience of coming out to a father; and (4) coming out to coworkers and schoolmates are only relatively easy. The findings are discussed in the context of various sociocultural configurations, including patriarchy, heteronormativity, and GLBT in popular culture, and homophobia in contemporary Japanese society.

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The Transparent and Family Closets: Gay Men and Lesbians and Their Families of Origin

Cited by 50 publications

References 11 publications

Same-Sex Marriage in Japan

Same-Sex Marriage in Japan

Displaying families. Significado y valor de las familias de origen en la homoparentalidad

Coming Out of the Closet in Japan: An Exploratory Sociological Study

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