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and 56% support GL people openly serving in the military. 73% favor ***ual orientation being included in the hate crimes statutes. 39% support same-*** marriage, while 47% support civil unions, and 46% support adoption rights. ( Fitzgibbons，1999) A separate study shows that, in the United States, the younger generation is more supportive of gay rights than average. For example, a Kaiser Family Foundation study found that 18-24 year olds strongly supported gay rights in 2001. However, polling data also shows a trend among Americans in general toward rejection of homo***ual-specific legal expansion of rights, especially same-*** marriage. A poll commissioned by CNN/USA Today Gallup in 2005 asked the question, "Do you think marriages between homo***uals should or should not be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriages?" 56% said "should not be valid", while 39% said "should be valid", and 5% were unsure. ( Fitzgibbons，1999) B. Absorbability of Western Homo***uality Culture Although it is a long way that western homo***uality .comes to penetrate oriental world, it has happened anyway in China, promoting the development of homoerotism. Popular culture should be one approach of the cultural transmitting, including movies and books. What makes queer movies distinguished from commercial ones is that queers remain in such special situation which bears the characteristics of marginal and comparatively feeble. Single standard denies admitting this sort of metal, psychological behavior which goes to departure of mainstream regulation, causing the subsistence and communications of queers stay in concealment and depression; what is worse, discrimination arising from every status of society brings negative effect to the homo***ual performers. Obviously, Chinese homo***ual films have stuck in an embarrassing circumstance—basically; no single cinema in China deserves a pure homo***ual cine, under the pressure of the government. Compared with that kind of movies in West countries, ours seem to be less advanced, for as many as Chinese homo***uality silver spoon undertake the mission of the society, politics, and epoch, together with the own religious culture of the oriental world. Since our national civilization have already characterized homo***uality films, we always see roles—gay or lesbian of the movie dumb, depressed, and gloomy, with reference of a eminent film Farewell My Concubine (directed by Cheng Kaige), in which the protagonist Chen Dieyi, a gay flabby, though virtuous, yields to his tragical destination without struggling or fighting, thus completes a perfect reflecting image of Chinese queer. Western stream came along, bringing innovative views and attitudes, in which, movies of that sort perform their responsibility. Western homoerotism cinemas, with the movie Brokeback Mountain, directed by the famous Chinese, Ann Lee, as a quintessence, leave capacious room for spectators to lay stone by this social issue—its root, influence, the possibility of its existing, and its future, and it is believed that most Chinese spectators would hardly face these matters at home. The impact of diverse cultures could, to a certain extent, unionize different cognizing of homoerotism. So dose this law proves in publishing region, large amount of foreign literature has flew into China, doing their favor to assist Chinese homo***uality scholars to do further research. For instance, these books below are helpful for