RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT DALAM KOMUNIKASI ANTAR PRIBADI KAUM GAY (Studi Kasus Pengembangan Hubungan Antar Pribadi Kaum Gay di Kalangan Remaja Gay Kota Surakarta Tahun 2017)

Edho Regga Armelyaching, D1214031. RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN GAY INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS (Case Study of Gay Interpersonal Relationship Development among Gay Youth of Surakarta). Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta. Juny 2017. This study is based on the phenomenon of gay people who get negative views in the community. Establishing a relationship or intimate relationship becomes an absolute right in every individual as well as gay, who choose to hide their relationship because of the discrimination they will receive. In general, this study aims to determine the uniqueness of the stages of relationship among fellow gays. The object of research used is gay adolescent Surakarta. The main theory used by researchers is social penetration. Distributing relationships into stages and analogous to layers of onions, relationships are formed from the outer layers that only bring up the public image, then through the process of reproduction or openness, to enter in the next layer when it enters on the breadth where there is ownership of the shared information up to the stage of reach The depth of the relationship where the relationship becomes more intimate than ever. This research is a qualitative research using case study approach. The sampling technique used the snowball sampling technique using one key informant to obtain another informant with several criteria. Due to the gays in the area, especially in Surakarta that is still closed. Data collection techniques used in the form of interviews, direct observation, and some informant documentation. In this study at the stage of relationship formation, there are sources of information about gay acquaintances, restrictions on self-information and positive impressions, formal verbal languages, and non-verbal symbols are limited. In relationship maintenance occurs the process of exploring relationships and excavation of information, relaxed verbal language, a more relaxed nonverbal symbol, while at the stage of relationship dynamics, occur obstacles that arise and the process of self-evaluation, nonverbal symbols appear during the conflict, as well as at stable relationship stage, Self-disclosure privacy and intimate relationships, gay-language appearing, and more intimate nonverbal symbols. Keywords: Interpersonal Communication, Social Penetration, Gay, verbal language and nonverbal symbols