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According
to Newton
(1978),
who
made
an
observation on
glly life in
1960s,
there sxetwo types of homosexuals
in their population. They are "overts" and "coverts".
overts live
entire working
lives within
the conteY.t
of the
[gay¹
community;
coverts !ive their entire nonwm:'.cing lives
within
It
means
there are homosexuals
who work
in gay
workl or
community that oalied "overts".
On the
other
hand
homosexuals 'Who
work outside the
gay
community
called "coverts".
At
that
time
gay
world didn't
provide much job
and
non-gay world was very
unfair to
them.
Many
of
them cculd
be
openly gay
they
paid
·very
salary.In the result, homosexuals
living
hor,_esty
as
gay and making
hard
effort
in
rnaintalniag a :fuise
identity in
society. (Halperin, 1993: 21)
On
the
last
decade
gay economy were
better. l'here
were
less
of
job
discrir!linations agai11st homosexuals,
but
the
jobs
were
limited
to the
low-status and
!ow-paying only. Bartenders, disc
jockey and bathhouse attendants are
the
varie..'y of
.iobs
the.ttrea!ed
the
homosexuals equally, (1993: 22)
rn the
homosexual culture li'lere
is a tern1
catted "the closet" CJr
"the
onen secret",
as Scdgvvkk
named
The
tdefines the
condition
of gay
people
who being
oppressed
by
me
soc'.ety
in
me
regime,
The
c!oset" emerges
to
challenge
tile
anti
gay culture. Responding
to
the injustice
mat
homosexuals
received,
where
gay people were
treated
as
crimiua!s, they
tried
to
give their
in..-;piration
through
writings.
example, as tb.e headline of
Nmv York Natr;e said "Letting the Cops Back
into
Michael Hardwick's Bedroom". As
Hardwick
is
ooe
of
homosexual writers, !he
headline shows the criticism to
the oppressor to
give !he
gay
rights bael4 to put
all !he
t'lli"1gS back to they used to be,
homosexuals t'rink they have been mistreated by
t..'te
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