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Jurnal Psikologi Kepribadian dan Sosial

ISSN 2301-7074

Vol. 1 / No. 2 / Published : 2012-06

Order : 3, and page :92 - 98

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Original Article :

Romantic relationship among drag queen (case study among drag queen homoseksual in surabaya)

Author :

  1. M.G. Bagus Ani Putra*1
  2. Wahyu Tri Muryani*2
  1. Dosen Fakultas Psikologi
  2. -

Abstract :

  Indonesia is a country with the mainstream moslem’s population against trangender. However, in the society there are drag queens that are part of the transgender (Ekins and King, 2006). Drag queen has a romantic relationship’s life with his partner, out of his status who’s marginalized by the society. The aims of this research are to describe romantic relationship among drag queen and to describe the role of the drag queen in his romantic relationship.   The romantic relationship is the close relationship that involves sexual desire and can be expressed and shared with the partner. This research uses the triangular love theory from Sternberg (1986) as theoretical perspective. The participant of this research is a drag queen in Surabaya who ever has partner and use drag queen as his main profession. This research used interview and field note from Facebook’s note and the blog of the participant to gather data. Coding is the way to organize data and the analyzing use critical paradigm. Result shows that the romantic relationship of the homosexual drag queen is a companionate love. The profession of the drag queen has no influence for the romantic relationship.  Therefore, homosexual drag queen must keep good relation with his friends because friends are factor who’s supporting him to be a drag queen. 

Keyword :

Romantic Relationship, Drag queen,


References :

T. N. Bradbury,(2010) Intimate Relationships New York : W. W. Norton & Company.

Tristan S Bridges,(2010) Men Just Weren't Made To Do This : Performances of Drag at ''Walk a Mile in Her Shoes'' Marches - : Journal of Gender and Society, 24: 5

Victoria Clarke,(2007) From Lesbian and Homoseksual Psychology to LGBTQ Psychologies: A Journey into the Unknown (or Unknowable)?. Dalam Clarke dan Peel. (2007). Out in Psychology. west Sussex : John Wiley dan Sons Ltd





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