Holman, Elizabeth Grace Ogolsky, Brian G Oswald, Ramona Faith
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Journal of homosexuality
Concealing a sexual minority identity at work has been linked to adverse health and employment outcomes. The authors of this paper examine whether LGBQ employee levels of concealment from coworkers and supervisors are linked to perceived workplace climate and LGBQ-identity centrality. Rainbow Illinois 2010-2011 data were used; N = 319 LGBQ full or ...
Lockman, Tyler J
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Journal of homosexuality
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) students in the United States experience adverse dynamics as undergraduates and as medical students, including discrimination or fear of it, heightened stress, and lower social support. Yet little is known about the experiences of SGM medical school applicants. An original survey distributed via SGM student groups a...
Vandenbussche, Elie
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Journal of homosexuality
The aim of this study is to analyze the specific needs of detransitioners from online detrans communities and discover to what extent they are being met. For this purpose, a cross-sectional online survey was conducted and gathered a sample of 237 male and female detransitioners. The results showed important psychological needs in relation to gender...
McAndrew, Jennie Bonus, James Alex
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Journal of homosexuality
People harbor unique biases about the relative influence of popular media on themselves compared to others. Broadly, they expect others to experience greater harm from exposure to negative depictions (e.g., violent content) and to derive fewer benefits from exposure to positive depictions (e.g., educational content). The current experiment examined...
Jones, K Nicole Hoover, Stephanie Glaeser, Elizabeth Woods, Christy Jersin Clark, Michael Brewster, Melanie
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Journal of homosexuality
Though notable progress has been made in protections for LGBTQ people in the United States, they are still disproportionately victims of discrimination and harassment. Activism efforts on behalf of LGBTQ communities by heterosexual, cisgender people-known as cishet allies-are critical to maintaining and gaining civil rights. Social justice praxis e...
Brennan, Joseph
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Journal of homosexuality
Family Dick is a commercial gay pornography website that has courted controversy for both its stepfather-son theme and for the youthful stylings of its Daddy's Little Boy series. This article reads viewer commentary (selected from more than 700 comments) of scenes within the series posted to its Pornhub channel. Textual analysis is employed to read...
Ahmed, Ali Hammarstedt, Mats
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Journal of homosexuality
We examined customer and worker discrimination against gay and lesbian business owners using a web-based experiment conducted at a Swedish university campus. Participants (N = 1,406) were presented with a prospective restaurant establishment on the campus. They then stated whether they would be positive to such an establishment, whether they would ...
Goldberg, Abbie E McCormick, Nora Matsuno, Em Virginia, Haylie Beemyn, Genny
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Journal of homosexuality
This study explored how 30 trans graduate students made decisions regarding graduate school. Specifically, it examined how the students chose their graduate program and, secondarily, how they chose their field, what led them to apply to graduate school, and their outness during the application process. In selecting a program, participants considere...
Wang, Kaipeng Yang, Jie Averett, Paige
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Journal of homosexuality
Guided by Andersen's Health Service Use Model, this study examined the predisposing, enabling, and need factors of MH service use among middle-aged and older lesbians. Data were collected from 455 lesbians ages 50 and over through a national online survey. Ordered logistic regression was conducted to examine the predictors of mental health counseli...
Mayeza, Emmanuel
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Journal of homosexuality
This article draws on sexual citizenship theory to analyze how some lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual and queer (LGBTPQ) youth in a low socio-economic rural South African context negotiate access to inclusive sexual health education programmes and resources. Participants are students aged 19 to 32 years old at a South African universit...
