Week4-2: tags and the final project
I subscribed the feeds in Technorati and Flickr with tag “homosexual”. Flickr is really a great photo sharing website and it listed the top ten most popular people tagged “homosexual”. Although it’s quite pity that there are no results with both tags “homosexual and Hong Kong” (so that I can’t get any photos from Hong Kong on homosexual), it actually provides hundreds of amazing photos of homosexuals from different places.
Since there were no other classmates working on the same topic as I , I chose three “leads” from the feeds that I subscribed from “delicious” several days ago.
First comes from the feeds with tag “homosexual”
Magazine publisher accepts Christ, leaves homosexual lifestyle
Lead: The publisher of Venus Magazine, a 13 year old periodical for homosexuals of African-American descent, announced on the magazine’s website that she has become a Christian and now rejects the lesbian lifestyle she has lived for her “entire adult life.”
It’s an interesting story, because the publisher was an aggressive, creative and strategic supporter of gay and lesbian issues in her last 29 years, but now the religion changes such a solid belief of her. It reminds me that I can pay attention to the religion power among the homosexuals in Hongkong and I can do some interviews to get the attitude towards homosexual issue from Christian in Hongkong.
Second is from the tag “homophobia”
Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal?
Lead: New study links homophobia with homosexual arousal questions whether it is latent homosexuality or a response to anxiety.
This is a study published in Selfhelp Magazine. It does attract me since I have never thought about the topic in this study before. It told me the other possibilities of where the homophobia comes from. In fact, the homophobia in Hongkong is still serious, but according to this article, the reasons of hates or anger to homosexuals are complicated. So it’s possible for me to talk with some people who are homophobia and try to find the real reasons that they hold the opinion, maybe I will get some different answers as expected.
The last one is about the tag “aids”.
HIV Study Raises Caution about Circumcision
Lead: Men with HIV who get circumcised hoping they will be less likely to transmit the AIDS virus may have a greater-than-normal risk of infecting their partners if they resume sexual activity too soon after the operation.
It’s the hottest news about HIV these days. I didn’t pay much attention to specific health issues about HIV in the past but in fact, it’s really a big problem among homosexuals. This news reminds me that I may do some research on HIV situation in Hongkong among homosexuals and I may interview the social workers on HIV organizations and some homosexuals about how they received the advanced information about HIV and disseminate them to the others in Hongkong.
