THE DISCOURSE OF THE STRUGGLE TO ACHIEVE ACCEPTANCE FOR LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS IN MALAYSIA AS A MUSLIM MAJORITY COUNTRY
Abstract
Malaysia has known as a country with majority Muslims
people and also using Islamic regulations on their political
system. LGBT movement in Malaysia has developing fastly as
time passes and it become big concern for Malaysian
government because their national law implementing Islamic
regulations as well. The top of the LGBT issues in Malaysia
was emerged One of the famous LGBT community in
Malaysia called Seksualiti Merdeka (SM) has banned in 2011,
however in the early of 2012 the issue of sexuality content of
LGBT images which spread in poster and others media
became one of the concern for Malaysian government and also
bring the international debate . The purpose of this research is
the writer want to examine and explain more about how LGBT
activists struggle for their acceptance in the country with
majority Muslims people and have some strict regulations, like
Sharia Law which used by Malaysian government about the
LGBT issues and its same-sex relationship.