Ways of Life of Lesbian

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study the ways of life and life spending plans of lesbians. Data was collected by using in-depth interviews with six lesbian couples through Snowball technique. Using the credibility inspectation of triabgular data by reinterview with the same questions to inspect the data certainty then analyze the data along with the conceptual idea and theories related to heterosexual behavior presented by depict description. The research results are divided into three parts: personal information, family background, and lifestyles and life spending plans.

According to the personal information of key informants, the six couples consist of five tomboy-and-lady couples and one tomboy-and-gay couple, aged between 24-35 years, most of whom are Buddhists and graduated with bachelor’s degree. The primary information givers are currently living in apartments. The ways in which they were raised in their families include strict or unattended liberal manner, lack of warmth, domestic violence, sexual oppression, and inequality of treatment towards female gender, which influenced their liking and interest in women like them. Lesbians will vividly reveal their identity to those accepting families who don’t care about social views. They will live their married life openly as a monogamous family and plan in their life for family conditions and stability in life. The final result of the interviews is that the primary information givers want to see same-sex marriage legally permitted in order to gain the rights and benefits for married couples. The researcher would like to encourage families and such concerned organizations as education institutes and mass media to offer news and publicize lesbians’ works in a manner creative and fair to those who possess such behaviors.