tailieunhanh - Impacts of mass media on the LGBT community in Ho Chi Minh city

The images of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people (LGBT) in Vietnam are mostly primarily transmitted to people through the largest information channel that is the mass media. This research article focuses on the two-sided interpersonal impact on the LGBT community by analyzing a case study focusing on a group of people from this community. | Hue University Journal of Science Social Sciences and Humanities ISSN 2588-1213 Vol. 131 No. 6C 2022 5 247 DOI IMPACTS OF MASS MEDIA ON THE LGBT COMMUNITY IN HO CHI MINH CITY Le Thanh Ngan University of Sciences Hue University 77 Nguyen Hue St. Hue Vietnam Correspondence to Le Thanh Ngan lt gt Received March 31 2022 Accepted June 25 2022 Abstract. The images of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people LGBT in Vietnam are mostly primarily transmitted to people through the largest information channel that is the mass media. This research article focuses on the two-sided interpersonal impact on the LGBT community by analyzing a case study focusing on a group of people from this community. The research results show that the most positive impact of the media is to help them identify the gender form repel social prejudice and become important allies in advanced activities of LGBT rights. On the other hand the media also has negative impacts such as transmitting inappropriate information and images of homosexuals to viewers. Since then the article also pointed out several measures to limit the positive impact of the media on this community. Keywords LGBT community mass media positive impacts negative impacts 1. Introduction The LGBT is a community of lesbian gay bisexual transgender and other homosexual individuals agreed by a common culture and social movements. This community often honors pride diversity personality and sex 1 . In Vietnam there are no accurate statistics on the number of members of this community. Still according to the estimates of scientists the percentage of homosexuals and bisexual people is 3 of the population which is about million 6 . Previously the LGBT community was closed because of the misconceptions of the society that considered homosexuals a disease. These psychological deviations made them be discriminated and even isolated. These imposition concepts have made LGBT

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• LGBT community
• Mass media
• Positive impacts
• Negative impacts
• Heterosexual people