青少年男同志向手足出櫃之歷程與影響

The process and effects of the adolescent gay's coming out to their siblings

周采潔(TSAI-CHIEH CHOU,)

指導教授 ： 孫世維

國立臺北大學/社會科學學院/社會工作學系/碩士(2010年)

摘要

檢閱目前同志出櫃議題之主流文獻，多半針對家庭中的親子關係進行探討，卻忽視了同志手足於家庭系統中的功能與角色，有鑑於此，本研究以向手足出櫃之青少年男同志為研究對象，深入探究其出櫃歷程及影響因素、互動關係之改變，以及向手足出櫃之經驗對其向父母親出櫃的影響。

本研究採取質性研究深度訪談法進行資料的蒐集，並且使用主題分析法（thematic analysis）為分析策略，透過青少年男同志生命故事的敘說，有脈絡的呈現其成長過程中的重要事件及出櫃經驗，而後進行跨案例之綜合分析。

研究結果發現，青少年男同志向手足出櫃之歷程，以「同志性傾向的覺察」為起始，經歷「同志性傾向之確認」乃至「同志性傾向徵兆之顯露」，進而誘發「向手足出櫃」之行為，其影響因素則包括「平等與支持的手足關係」、「離家—地理距離影響心理距離」、「手足出生序」、「手足性別組合」、「手足之人格特質」。青少年男同志對於向父母出櫃，抱持著「刻意忽略」、「偽裝與隱藏」、「避重就輕」、「語帶保留」的被動態度，然而若青少年男同志向手足出櫃，獲得正向支持與鼓勵，可能鬆動原先排斥向父母出櫃的想法，尤其是被賦予較大權力與義務、偏向親職化的「長子女」，於家庭中出櫃議題發酵時，往往扮演支持、緩衝及教育的重要角色，發揮更顯著的影響力。

關鍵字

青少年 ； 男同志 ； 手足 ； 出櫃

並列摘要

Looking over the mainstream documents of the issues of gay’s coming out of the closet, we found that most of the issues are aimed at the parent-child relationship in the family to explore, but neglect the functions and roles the gay’s siblings play in the family. In light of this, this research, with the objects of gays who come out of the closet to his siblings, delves into the process and effect of gay’s coming out of the closet, the shift of interactive relationship and the influence of the experience of gay’s coming out of the closet to siblings on those to parents.

This research adopts the qualitative research method to go on the collection of the materials, and uses thematic analysis as the analytical strategy; through the statement of the life story of teenage gays, sequentially showcasing their important incidents and experiences of coming out of the closet in their journey of maturity and embarking on the integrated analysis among the cases we are engaged.

The result points out that the process of the teenage gay’s coming out of the closet to siblings, with the observation of the homosexual tendency as the onset, goes from the confirmation of homosexual tendency to the revelation of the signs of homosexual tendency, which further incites the behavior of coming out of the closet to siblings. The factors include the equality and supports from the siblings, the influence of geographical distance on the psychological distance, the ranking of siblings, the combination of the siblings’ gender and the personalities of sibling.

The teenage gays take passive behaviors, deliberate negligence, disguise and pretence, beating around the bush and mumbling, toward coming out of the closet to parents. However, if the teenage gays come out of the closet to siblings, they will positively get the supports. Further, they can overcome the thought against coming out of the closet to parents. Especially, the oldest siblings who are endowed with greater privilege and obligation, usually play a supportive and educational go-between to exercise their marked implication when the issues of coming out of the closet get off the ground.

並列關鍵字

adolescent ； gay ； coming out ； sibling

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