Friendship among young heterosexual and homosexual Chinese Singaporean

Abstract

Existing literature on friendship studies have focused on heterosexuals’ same and cross-gender friendship patterns mainly examining how social variable such as gender, ethnicity and social class contribute to various friendship experiences for individuals. Previous studies had failed to look into cross sexuality patterns that might shed some light on sexuality as an influential factor on individual friendship experience My research serves as an exploratory study on friendship and sexuality for young heterosexual and homosexual Singaporean Chinese, seeking to explain friendship patterns from a sociological perspective.