Analysis of The Same-sex Marriage Issue in Taiwan: Changes in Public Opinion and Influential Factors

• Main Authors: Hung-Jung ,Chen, 陳虹蓉
• Other Authors: Tsong-Jyi ,Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jkvs66

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 公共行政學系公共政策碩士班 === 107 === A retired National Taiwan University (NTU) French language and literature lecturer fell to his death from the top floor of a 10-story building in Taipei on Sunday. The story about Picoux’s partner, with whom he lived for 35 years. However, Picoux’s personal tragedy generated such public sympathy. The relevant arguments for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Taiwan have become an open topic in recent years, symbolizing that the society is gradually facing the protection of homosexual rights. During this period, the news media have conducted public opinion surveys on whether the people support same-sex marriage. The public''s opinions on the issue of same-sex marriage show a polarized discussion of approval or opposition. The purpose of this paper is to understand the formation of homosexual marriage issues in Taiwan and to explore what factors affect people''s support or opposition to same-sex marriages through domestic and foreign literature on homosexual attitudes and same-sex marriage issues. This paper divides the possible factors into two categories: demographic variables and attitude variables, and uses the chi-square test and the binary odds to analyze the factors affecting the same-sex marriage in Taiwan. The study findings as gender, age,education, religious, party inclinations of the people are important indicators that influence the support of the same-sex marriage. Conversely, the degree of urbanization is not a factor that influences popular support or opposition to same-sex marriage. It is concluded that women, younger, higher education, not religious, and pan-green identifiers be the most likely to express support for same-sex marriage.