ABSTRACT
This research focuses to analyze gender roles and gender identities in gay couple households. This research is conducted under the framework of American Studies as interdisciplinary studies which applies some approaches such as gender theory, queer theory, semiotics theory and socio-cultural approach to answer the research question.
This research is a descriptive-qualitative research that uses data from personal gay blogs. The blogs are Its Daddies Plural (http://itsdaddiesplural.blogspot.com/), Mommy with A Penis (http://mommywithapenis.blogspot.com/), Those Two Daddies (http://thosetwodaddies.blogspot.com/), Dad loves Daddy (http://dadlovesdaddy.com/), Jesus has Two Daddies (http://jesushas2daddies.blogspot.com/), Bella Daddy (http://belladaddy.com/ and http://belladaddy.blogspot.com/), David and JP’s Thoroughly Modern (fa) Millie (http://davidandjp.com/blog/), The Daddy Diaries (https://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/), Spawn of Mike+Mike (http://spawnofmikeandmike.blogspot.com/), Dad Squared (http://www.dadsquaredblog.blogspot.com/), Gay Family Values (http://gayfamilyvalues.blogspot.com/). The primary data are words, phrases, sentences and aspect of image such as color and pose which share in the blog post.
The analysis shows that gay household does not show the missing gender roles. They can afford both feminine role and masculine role in their family. The gender roles in their household are not always assigned strictly. There are some couples where both of them involve in feminine gender role and masculine gender role. The other couples show there are certain person involves in masculine gender role and certain person involves in feminine gender role. Gender identities in gay couple household are not always relevant with sex. The deviation of sex and gender identities is relevant with the queer theory.
Keywords: gender role,gender identity, gay family