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"male bonding" as in, if you hold hands while walking, or hug, or touch your male friend intimately in public, it won't be considered gay in any way.
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How very interesting. I assume straight males do it too; hence the apparent disenchantment?
Oh, so there's a sort of third gender there too. (I think I've read about it before) And they have their own community. It's a good thing, I suppose. But the part where it states they often end up as lower social workers, if not sex workers seems pretty worrying, if for the apparent implications of the (realistically existent?) social discrimination...Is that the case? I agreed it's LGBT-related, while I can understand the difficulty of defining their sexuality apart from third gender, they also have a feeling of transgender....kinda.
Here.... Well, first of all, I think the social attitude towards gays are generally more negative than indifferent. That I can say for sure. The rest I can't say for definite generalization because there are a bit of a social segregation within the people; either by race, class, or religion. Not to mention the wide area and further different social condition that is Indonesia, as compared to Jakarta that, while big and diverse, certainly can't speak for all part of the country (in some part, precisely because it's big and diverse).
Ahem, that's too long of a disclaimer, isn't it? :>
Well, as far as I can see, the homophobic 'gays are ewww' view often exists, It exists alongside the trope Have You Tried Not Being A Monster. Recently a gay organization that are organizing a GLBT event were protested by a radical Islamic group (that, admittedly, are raiding everything else that they disagrees.) to cancel the event while spreading a homophobic message. I don't know how the event turns out. I think depictions of homosexuality are forbidden by law (while not too enforced...at times). Hints of homosexual behaviors are often ridiculed, if not outright laughed at. Gay dating sites, prostitutes, 'massage parlors' and bars does exist, but they often are hidden and only known by word of mouth or the internet. Also, feminine attitudes are hard to taken seriously (except in fashion and beauty career paths).
