The thesis aims to study how rainbows families are being treated by the authorities and the surroundings. It focuses on how homosexual parents are met in society. Although, homosexuals have the legal right to have a family and enter into marriage, the social norms are still far behind and rainbows families are seen as “the others” and abnormal.  Earlier researches have been studding how the authorities still assumes that every family are living in a heterosexual family constellation. By this assumption they exclude families who are not living in a heterosexual family. To find out what kind of experiences the homosexual parents have we have interviewed eight homosexual parents. Which four were females and four were males. The result of this thesis shows that most of the homosexual parents are not experience that they are treated bad or in any other way different then heterosexual parents. It also shows that people in the nearest surroundings to the homosexual family are really glad that the gay couple have a family. At the same time the homosexual parents are saying that there will always be people who think it’s abnormal. But as long as the nearest families and friends find it alright they are not paying too much energy of those who thinks it’s wrong. The majority of gay males explain that the hardest part in building a family is that they are males; it’s harder to be accepted as two fathers. One conclusion is not that homosexuals are being treated different; it’s more a question of gender. Especially when the children are young, a lot of males feels that the always have to state themselves, not as a gay parents but as two males who is having infants.

Statistik visade att få män kontaktar någon form av samhällsinstans när de blivit utsatta för våld i en nära relation. Våldet anses likvärdigt i heterosexuella relationer som samkönade relationer, trots detta brister kunskapen om våld i samkönade relationer. Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka kring vilka eventuella föreställningar som råder i samband med samkönade relationer inom stödgivande samhällsinstanser. Vi valde att fokusera på våldsutsatta män. Studien innefattar åtta kvalitativa intervjuer med respondenter som arbetar inom stödgivande samhällsinstanser. Studiens teoretiska utgångspunkter utgick från ett genusperspektiv och queerteori. Resultatet har presenterats under avsnitt 5 under fyra teman vilka är “stödgivande samhällsinstansers bemötande”, “heteronormativa föreställningar kring våldsutsatta män”, “möjlighet till stöd och skydd” samt “outing och skam”. Resultatet visade att heteronormativa föreställningar kring våld i samkönade relationer kan påverka vilket stöd och skydd våldsutsatta män erbjuds. Avslutningsvis diskuterades det framtagna resultatet kring den bristande kunskap som föreligger kring våld i samkönade relationer och studiens slutsatser. Slutsatserna för studien var att det fanns ett heteronormativt synsätt hos vissa av de stödgivande samhällsinstanser vi intervjuat. Det har även framförts förslag till framtida forskning där vi vill att ämnet ska studeras mer utförligt. / Statistics show that very few men exposed to domestic violence, either in heterosexual or same-sex relationships, contact any social service. Although domestic violence is often restricted to being defined the same as heterosexual relationships as same-sex relationships, knowledge about violence in same-sex relationships is inadequate. The purpose of this study was to examine if any perception and understanding of violence in same-sex relationships exist within supporting community instances, focusing on male victims of domestic violence. The study containing eight qualitative interviews with respondents within supporting community instances. The result is presented under the themes “stödgivande samhällsinstansers bemötande”, “heteronormativa föreställningar kring våldsutsatta män”, “möjlighet till stöd och skydd” and “outing och skam”. To notice is that the result showed that perceptions about heteronormativity can affect which type of support and protection male victims of domestic violence is given. Lastly, a discussion about the developed result around the inadequate knowledge about violence in same-sex relationships will be held. The conclusions of the study were that there is a heteronormative approach within some of the supporting community instances we interviewed. There are also suggestions for future research and therefore needs to be studied at length.