1. LGBTI PROCESS IN POPULAR CULTURE
BY
ECEM HEPGÜLER
EZGI SANCAK
SELEN IŞLEYEN
2. CONTENTS
• Definition of LGBTI
• LGBTI Culture
• LGBTI Social Movements
• LGBTI Pride Parade
• The Effect of Media on LGBTI in Popular Culture
• LGBTI news in the World
• LGBTI in Turkey
• Videos
• References
3. DEFINITION OF LGBTI
• The definition of LGBTI, includes gay, lesbian, transsexual, intersex and bisexual
individuals. This term in use since 1990’s.
• Gay : A person who is attracted primarily to members of the same sex. Although it can be
used for any sex (e.g. gay man, gay woman, gay person), “lesbian” is sometimes the
preferred term for women who are attracted to women.
• Transgender :This term has many definitions. It is frequently used as an umbrella term to
refer to all people who do not identify with their assigned gender at birth or the binary
gender system. This includes transsexuals, cross-dressers, genderqueer, drag kings, drag
queens, two-spirit people, and others.
4. DEFINITION OF LGBTI
• Intersex: A person whose sexual anatomy or chromosomes do not fit with the traditional
markers of "female" and "male." people born with XXY.
• Bisexual :A person who is attracted to both people of their own gender and another gender.
Also called “bi”.
6. LGBTI CULTURE
• . Sexual identity and orientation lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (transvestites,
transgender) individuals that organized events, and the response to activities or still LGBT
and to describe what happens in general naming "LGBT culture". In case it is not
synonymous terms to define this concept again, "Gay culture" is used in the name.
• Gay marriage is a marriage type defined formal and social frameworks for togetherness of
two individuals in same-sex families format.
• Today there are 17 countries which have an official heterosexist discrimination. These are
Argentina, Belgium, United Kingdom, Brazil, Denmark, France, Canada, Spain, Sweden,
Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Uruguay and New Zealand. It
literally covers the situation to be discriminatory marriage and adoption rights. In Portugal,
these countries are also right outside of marriage; but Portugal does not recognize the right
to adopt.
7. LGBTI SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• A frequently stated aim of activists and
social movement among LGBT, social
equality for LGBT people. Some people
also develop the LGBT community or
wider society were struggling to recover
from sexual repression. Today the LGBT
movement, organized lobbying and street
marches; social groups, support groups and
community activities; magazines, movies
and literature,academic research and
writing and business activities as well as a
variety of political activism and cultural
activity occurs.
8. LGBTI PRIDE PARADE
• Pride parade , the LGBT celebrated worldwide every year at the end of June and
LGBT individuals are a whole series of events and ceremonies with the participation
of people who support individuals.
9. THE EFFECT OF MEDIA ON LGBTI IN
POPULAR CULTURE
• All member of LGBTI are using the social media too
announce their voices about gender equality. We can
learn easily all announcements protests and actions
made by LGBT’S from social media. The number of
LGBTI people is increasing day by day state and
Wernerfelt wrote that; ‘on a typical day , one out of
every ten people who change their interested in status
on Facebook do so to reflect a same gender interest.’
Also; after the June 26 supreme decision we know
more than 26 million people change their profile and
they add rainbow filter on their picture.
10. LGBTI NEWS IN THE WORLD
• Arsenal Players Against Homophobia
The news is Rainbow to against homophobia to support their gay sportsman friends.
Arsenal players invited all players to wear colorful shoelaces.
11. LGBTI NEWS IN THE WORLD
In Paris, A Anti-gay Walking
In the capital of France, people who against
they gays, protested gay-marriages. They
said that, ‘we do not want that they have
children through tube baby or surrogate
motherhood’ 77 thousand 500 people
attended in the walking.
12. LGBTI NEWS IN THE WORLD
The Largest LGBTI Festival Was Created in Europe
This festival was created in Kopenhang and also politicians and diplomats joined
into this festival. People who participate the festival, wore colorful clothes and
they danced with cheerful music.
16. GAY PRIDE ISTANBUL
Gay Pride Istanbul (Turkish: Onur Yürüyüşü) is a
gay pride march and LGBT demonstration held
annually in Turkey's biggest city, Istanbul. The
event first took place in 2003 and now occurs
each year on either the last Sunday of June or
the first Sunday of July, to mark the end of
Istanbul pride week. About 30 people took part in
the first Gay Pride Istanbul. The numbers have
increased exponentially each year, reaching
roughly 5,000 people by 2010. The 2011
gathering attracted over 10,000 people, therefore
making Gay Pride Istanbul the biggest march of
its kind in Eastern Europe.The 2012 pride march,
which took place on 1 July, attracted between
10,000 to 30,000 people.
17. LAW
• Gay sexual conduct between consenting adults in private is not a crime in Turkey.
The age of consent for both heterosexual and homosexual sex is 18.
• In Turkey, compulsory military service applies to all male Turkish citizens between
the ages of 18 and 41. However, the Turkish military openly discriminates against
passive homosexuals by barring them from serving in the military. Active
homosexuals and bisexuals can serve in Turkish military.
• No laws exist yet in Turkey that protect LGBT people from discrimination in
employment, education, housing, health care, public accommodations or credit.
• Turkey does not recognise same-sex marriages, civil unions or domestic
partnership benefits. Recent research revealed that 80% of the Turkish population is
against same-sex marriages.
