With the social changes and the rising attention of human rights, the concept of "home" has different meanings from the previous ones. Fighting for gender equality and seeking equal rights for everyone, become the worldwide belief. Taiwan also steps on this wave and the "Diverse Family Formation", the marriage of equal rights, is the most important event in Taiwan during this wave. "Diverse Family Formation" as a draft law, comprises three different versions, however the Taiwanese mass media used to name the "Diverse Family Formation" for their convenience in writing reports.
In order to analyze the Taiwan newspaper media coverage for the diverse family formation event, this study adopts content analysis for analysis. This thesis explores four major newspapers in Taiwan: the China Times, the United Daily News, the Liberty Times and the Apple Daily News to look at their respective news frameworks of this event.
The main results of the study show that the mass media adopt different news frameworks to report diverse family formation event. In the early period of this event, the mass media used to stigmatize the homosexuals, e.g. they are the community with relation to the AIDS. Further, the mass media adopts fear comrades and other stereotypes to frame the homosexual/same sex relationship. This research also finds that the mass media prefer to report the articles from Taiwanese entertainers’ social network sites to support the diverse family formation.
As we look at the differences from these four newspapers, we find that they almost provide no ignores the details of the diverse family formation or the relevant laws and regulations. The four newspapers seldom take the opponents of the laws as the news sources. The United Daily News prefer to take political figures’ words as news sources, comparatively, the other three newspapers most commonly cited "entertainers" argument.
