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Brodersen, Folke, and Kerstin Oldemeier. "Coming-out." Universität Leipzig, 2017. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15946.
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Der Begriff Coming-out ist in politischer, wissenschaftlicher und alltagspraktischer Hinsicht mit verschiedenen Bedeutungen belegt. Ausgehend von seiner ursprünglichen Verwendung für die Initialisierung junger Edelfrauen auf einem semi-öffentlichen Heiratsmarkt im 19. Jahrhundert wurde er später für die (erstmalige) Thematisierung einer Nicht-Heterosexualität/Cisgeschlechtlichkeit üblich. Daran anschließend hat er etliche historisch-soziale Transformationen erfahren, die vor allem auf einer Verschiebung bzw. auf einer Umkehrung der Ökonomie der Sichtbarkeit beruhen, die sexuelle Abweichung formiert und ins Zentrum gesellschaftlicher Aufmerksamkeit setzt.
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Motzko, Eric M. "Coming out or forced out." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007motzkoe.pdf.
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Hey, Jessica L. ""Coming out" by numbers." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1189022132.
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Guittar, Nicholas A. "Out a sociological analysis of coming out." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4910.
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This study uses a constructivist grounded theory approach to investigate the meaning of "coming out" for LGBQ individuals. Analysis of open-ended interviews with 30 LGBQ persons revealed three main themes. First, coming out does not have a universal meaning among LGBQ persons; rather, it varies on the basis of an individual's experiences, social environment, and personal beliefs and values. Coming out is a transformative process, and an important element in identity formation and maintenance. Second, despite being attracted only to members of the same sex, ten interviewees engaged in a queer apologetic, a kind of identity compromise whereby individuals disclose a bisexual identity that they believe satisfies their personal attractions for only members of the same sex and society's expectation that they be attracted to members of the opposite sex. Third, both gender conformity (e.g., female=feminine) and gender non-conformity (e.g., female=masculine) present unique challenges to coming out. Because they are assumed to be straight, gender conformists must make a more concerted effort to come out. Gender non-conformists may experience greater ease coming out broadly because they are "assumed gay," but they also experience greater opposition from family and friends who resist gender non-conformity. This study provides important insight into the meaning of coming out as well the influences of heteronormativity and gender presentation on coming out. Implication and recommendations for future research are included.ID: 030423119; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-196).
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Cano, José Carlos. "True Blood, I’m coming out." La Mirada de Telemo, 2011. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index//handle/123456789/20360.
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Este texto es una reflexión en torno a la figura del vampiro a partir de la serie de televisión “True blood”, producción original de HBO Este artículo toma como marco de referencia exclusivamente la Temporada 1 de la serie
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Baptist, Joyce Alexandria. "Coming Out: One Family's Story." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29115.
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This case study elicits the process of coming out of a 6 member family-of-choice of an adult gay man in rural New Hampshire. 27.5 hours of face-to-face interviews were conducted with the family individually and collectively. Reflexivity, as a technique, was used extensively. Four themes were identified: Embracing gay identity, integrating as a family, building social networks, and social awakening. This study addresses the complexities of how multiple individuals negotiate rules and accommodate diverse viewpoints within a family system, provides insight into a family's journey of accepting their gay identity, utilizes personal narratives of family members, and reveals how the reflexive process contributes to a family's creation of new stories. Implications for clinical practice and future research are discussed.Ph. D.
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Mason, Glenn. "'Coming out' stories : a narrative study into 'coming out' as lesbian and gay to the family." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/coming-out-stories-a-narrative-study-into-coming-out-as-lesbian-and-gay-to-the-family(b55b6441-a0d2-4855-8083-5ea6be12bdfa).html.
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Background: The 'coming out' literature reveals there is a high degree of selectivity and fear of rejection around disclosure of sexual identity to others. It is suggested this distress can be particularly elevated around disclosure of sexual identity to the family. Recent research suggests that the age of disclosure around sexual identity within the family is shifting, but even with the recent growth of research within the lesbian, gay and bisexual community, researchers still do not fully understand the complexities of the 'coming out' process. Aim: This narrative study aimed to collect 'coming out' stories to better understand the process an adolescent goes through in disclosing their sexual identity to family. Participants: Seven participants were recruited through snowball sampling, four adolescents (one female and three male) who self-identified as lesbian or gay and three parents (three mothers) who had children that self-identified as lesbian or gay. Method: Participant stories were audio recorded in one semi-structured narrative interview, lasting up to 90 minutes. A narrative analysis was carried out drawing upon Labov's (1972) structural analysis and an adaption of Polkinghorne's (1995) narrative 'plots' to develop Thematic Concepts from the participant stories. Analysis: The structural analysis showed that participants did not restrict their stories to a single event of 'coming out' to the family. They spoke about 'coming out' experiences based around numerous chronological events across their life to date, and included evaluations of these. Five Thematic Concepts were developed from the seven participant stories - (1) the influence of self - a sense of knowing something; (2) the influence of the school environment; (3) the influence of culture and religion; (4) the influence of the digital age/new media; and (5) the influence of the family. Conclusions and Implications: Research literature suggests that 'coming out' should not be viewed as a one-time event, but an on-going process evolving across the lifespan. Historical and socio-political factors must also be considered in understanding the process of 'coming out'. With regards to clinical practice, this study suggests counselling psychology should be pro-active in advancing educative interventions to address heteronormativity and discrimination within society, as well as considering systemic approaches when working therapeutically with sexual minorities.
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Brown, Marni A. "Coming Out Narratives: Realities of Intersectionality." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/63.
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Coming out of the closet and sharing a disclosure narrative is considered an essential act to becoming gay (Jagose 1996; Meeks 2006). Although coming out experiences vary by time and place, sexuality scholars note the assumed difficulties when claiming a non-heteronormative identity, including stress, isolation, and rejection (Chauncey 1994; Faderman 1991; Herdt 1993; 1996; Savin-Williams and Ream 2003). In the late 1990s, a post-closet framework emerged arguing that coming out of the closet has become more common and less difficult; “American homosexuals have normalized and routinized their homosexuality to a degree where the closet plays a lesser role in their lives” (Seidman Meeks and Traschen 1999:19). Moreover, post- gay activists and writers such as James Collard (1998) contended that being and doing gay “authentically” involves moving past oppression and despair and living an openly gay life. In light of such arguments, this dissertation research was constructed to explore coming out experiences. I collected 60 narratives from self- identified lesbians and gay men living in Atlanta, New York, and Miami and analyzed these narratives using an intersectional framework. Intersectionality highlights the ways in which multiple dimensions of socially constructed relationships and categories interact, shaping simultaneous levels of social inequality (Crenshaw 1989; 1995). Through the multiple and sometimes complicated intersections of race, class, gender, capital, place, religion, and the body, my analysis exposes institutional and interactional dimensions of power, privilege, and oppression in coming out narratives. Indeed, the kind of "American" or "routinized" homosexuality described by post-closet scholars privileges white, non-gender conforming, middle-class individuals, most often male and urban. Coming out stories that express or embody elements of non-normativity are marginalized and marked as different. In conclusion, intersectionality exposes how privilege functions as a dimension to coming out stories, leading to marginalization and oppression amongst already discriminated identities.
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Jenkins-Adams, Bertha A. "“Coming out gave me my life back:” investigating the coming out process for professional African American lesbians." Diss., Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/20565.
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Doctor of PhilosophySchool of Family Studies and Human Services
Karen Myers-Bowman
The overarching research question addressed by this qualitative dissertation is “What are the meanings, structures, and essences of the lived experiences of the coming out process for professional women who are African American lesbians (PAALs)?” The study was designed to 1) fill an existing gap in the literature by examining the coming out processes of PAALs, 2) gain an understanding of the challenges and stressors associated with the intersection of gender, race, and sexual orientation, and 3) explore the diversity of experiences that PAALs may have when coming out to family, friends, and colleagues. Purposeful sampling was used to recruit 10 women between the ages of 25 and 65. Each participant completed a face-to-face interview. Data analysis yielded 21 codes that were then aggregated into five themes and several subthemes that serve as the basis of a 5-level model for describing their coming out process: Confusion, Suppression, The Turning Point, Disclosure, and Proving Self. These levels are progressive but may overlap depending on where the individual is in the coming out process. The findings show that the experiences of PAALs demonstrated the influences of culture, race, and gender in the personal and professional lives of lesbians who have come out, or who are in the process of disclosing their sexual orientation. Additionally, some PAALs are motivated to disclose their sexual identity in order to inspire other young lesbians to come out and express their true sexual orientation.
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Jones, Camilla H. "Religio-spirituality and the coming-out process." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/613.
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Vaughan, Michelle Denise. "Coming-out growth conceptualizing and measuring stress-related growth associated with coming out to others as gay or lesbian /." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1185147782.
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Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Psychology-Counseling Psychology, 2007."August, 2007." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 04/24/2008) Advisor, Charles A. Waehler; Committee members, John E. Queener, James R. Rogers, Priscilla R. Smith, James L. Werth, Jr.; Department Chair, Paul E. Levy; Dean of the College, Ronald F. Levant; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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Vaughan, Michelle D. M. A. "Coming-Out Growth: Conceptualizing and Measuring Stress-Related Growth Associated with Coming Out to Others as Gay or Lesbian." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1185147782.
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Nguyen, Hoa N. "Coming In and Coming Out: Navigating the Spaces between Cultural and Sexual Identity." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78303.
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The present study addresses three objectives: 1) to explore the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) persons who are coming in the United States as students and coming out about their sexual orientation, 2) to explore the cultural narratives that emerge in their disclosure process, and 3) to generate ways to support LGBQ international students. Research on the disclosure process for LGBQ persons have been comprised largely of white, middle-class individuals and families. This narrative inquiry broadens our understanding of how LGBQ persons from different cultures define and experience the coming-out process, particularly in the context of moving to a different country. Twelve LGBQ international students shared their coming in, coming out stories through interviews, journals, a timeline, online forum, and picture. Narrative analysis of their stories consisted of three methods: thematic, structural, and dialogic. These findings provide directions for future research, clinical practitioners, educators, and student affairs personnel working with international students.Ph. D.
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Conlin, Susan M. "The ongoing "coming out" process of lesbian parents." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001conlins.pdf.
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Saxey, Esther. "Homoplot : the coming out story as sexual identity narrative." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398757.
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Hosenseidl, Radek. "Coming out náctiletých queer hrdinů v současném evropském filmu." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Filmová a televizní fakulta. Knihovna, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-374218.
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This thesis discusses the similarities in coming-out depictions in
contemporary European cinema focusing on teenage and coming-of-age queer
male characters. While based on understanding the coming out as a sociological
phenomenon with strereotypical development, it allows for deviations both in
reality and in film. The thesis further aims to identify common elements in films
with coming-out narratives: repetitive narrative techniques, themes, characters
and motives. Using the analyses of three films, the thesis also examines the
importance of coming-out stories in broader film narrative.
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Fitzgerald, Damien. "Coming out and being a father : a qualitative study." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2015. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20203/.
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There is a substantial body of research exploring men identifying and coming out as gay. However, this is mainly focused on adolescents and young adults. Coming out is outlined by various models, which predominantly focus on the individual who identifies as gay and construct coming out as a discrete event that is completed. Similarly, there is a more limited body of research focused on gay parenting. However, the majority of research either focuses on lesbian mothers or uses quantitative approaches to identify deficits that children face due to having a gay parent. This study focuses on gay parenting in the context of how previously (heterosexually) married men who are fathers subsequently foregrounded their identity as a gay man. Data was collected using in-depth interviews to explore how these fathers constructed their identity as a gay man within the context of being a husband, ex-husband and father. The research utilises a Foucauldian discursive approach to analyse how 12 participants frame their practices and positions as a gay man and father and how this is managed within a heteronormative family context. Initially participants drew on a heteronormative discourse to maintain a legitimate identity as a heterosexual man, husband and father. However, this required participants to constrain their gay identity. When fathers foregrounded a gay identity they justified this by drawing on a liberal humanist discourse. Foregrounding a gay identity as a father violated many of the heteronormative practices associated with being a father and this required ongoing negotiation by participants, their children and other family members. This required participants to continually negotiate the foregrounding and backgrounding of their gay identity to fit with expected practices as a father in varied social contexts. The conceptual implications of this for understanding the process of coming out, the experience of gay fathers and future research and practice are discussed.
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Rule, Meri. "Parents' Emotional Experiences of Their Transgender Children Coming Out." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6103.
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Parents of transgender children face challenges when their children come out, including fear of negative reaction toward the parents and their transgender child by community members, concerns about social status in the community or religious organizations, and concerns about the inability of the transgender child to build his or her own family. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to investigate the emotional experiences of parents regarding their acceptance or rejection of their transgender child. Rohner's parental acceptance-rejection theory provided the framework for the study. Data were collected from parents (N = 13) who attended Parents and Friends of Gay and Lesbian support groups from various areas in the United States or who were identified through snowball sampling using semistructured interviews and a demographic questionnaire. Data were coded and analyzed to identify themes in parental responses to their transgender children coming out, which were either negative, neutral, positive, or mixed. Results indicated that even parents with negative emotions supported and loved their children unconditionally. Findings may be used to develop supportive interventions for parents coping with their transgender child's transition.
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Gargano, Marco. "L'influenza delle semantiche familiari sul processo di coming out." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/77266.
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Affrontare il tema del coming out impone l’utilizzo di una prospettiva complessa, che non si limiti a studiarne solamente alcune fasi, ma che lo consideri come un processo non lineare, dinamico, influenzato da molteplici aspetti, prevalentemente relazionali. Gli studi più recenti sull’omosessualità riguardano infatti le modalità con cui le persone costruiscono la propria identità omosessuale nel contesto sociale e familiare. L’obiettivo di questa tesi è quello di individuare l’influenza che le semantiche familiari esercitano sull’intero processo di coming out. E’ stato possibile riscontrare che le semantiche familiari individuate da Ugazio (2012) portino in effetti a traiettorie specifiche e differenti tra loro, come emerso dalle fantasie e i comportamenti erotici, dalla definizione che l’individuo dà di sé rispetto alla propria sessualità, dal grado di coerenza tra queste due variabili, dal livello di omofobia interiorizzata, dalle reazioni attese dai genitori al momento dello svelamento in casa e dalle preoccupazioni dei genitori successivamente alla dichiarazione del figlio. La semantica della libertà, con i suoi valori ed emozioni, sembra rendere il processo di coming out più semplice rispetto alle altre semantiche. Risultati significativi emergono anche in relazione all’assunzione di un positioning più vicino e simile a quello paterno, che invece renderebbe più difficile il processo che va dalla consapevolezza della propria omosessualità allo svelamento in famiglia. Studi futuri, con un campione maggiormente esteso, potranno avvalorare tale tesi e concedere dunque importanti contributi in campo clinico.Face the topic of coming out requires the use of a complex perspective, which is not limited to examining only some stages, but consider it as a non-linear, dynamic process, influenced by several aspects, primarily relational. The latest studies on homosexuality in fact relate to the manner in which people construct their homosexual identity in the social context and family. The aim of this thesis is to identify the influence that family semantic exercise over the whole coming out process. It was noted that family semantic identified by Ugazio (2012) bring in specific trajectories effects and different from each other, as shown by the fantasies and erotic behavior, from the definition that the individual gives himself over to their sexuality, the degree of consistency between these two variables, the level of homophobia, from the expected reactions from parents at the time of the unveiling at home and the parents' concern after the son's statement. The semantics of freedom, with its values and emotions, seems to make the process of coming out easier than other semantic. Significant results also emerge in relation to the assumption of a positioning closer and similar to the father, who instead make it more difficult the process from awareness of his homosexuality to the unveiling family. Future studies, with a more extensive sample, will corroborate this argument and thus provide important contributions in the clinical field.
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Moor, Tarryn R. "In or Out? Ambiguous Loss and Boundary Ambiguity in Families During the Coming Out Process." Wright State University Professional Psychology Program / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wsupsych1341164335.
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Vervoort, Dave. "Gay fathers coming out to their children, reaching for integrity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0006/MQ43230.pdf.
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Witcombe-Hayes, Sarah. "Siblings, sexualities, and secrets : exploring the sibling coming out experience." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/73368/.
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This thesis presents an in-depth, qualitative mixed method (QMM) inquiry into the coming out experiences of 19 lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) and 6 heterosexual brothers and sisters. It investigates what happens to sibling relationships, sibling identities, and sibling practices when non-heterosexuality is disclosed or discovered. This study seeks to explore how LGB individuals manage their sexuality in sibling and wider family dynamics; the difficulties of keeping secrets, the fears of being rejected, and the joys or disappointments experienced as they negotiate their new sexual identities. This study also explores how heterosexual siblings are emotionally affected by the disclosure of their sibling’s sexuality, and the impact that non-heterosexuality can have upon the relationships between brothers and sisters over time. The analysis is based upon data generated through semi-structured interviews, sibling sticker charts, research diaries, and debrief meetings. The research concludes that heterosexual siblings are significant in the process of coming out, but that disclosure is often far from simple. What is revealed is that the lives of siblings are meshed in wider family connections (specifically parents) and that the decisions about whether or not to come out to heterosexual brothers and sisters are often made in light of family responsibilities, obligations and commitments. The research shows that when parents hold homophobic or hostile attitudes towards non-heterosexuality this can create barriers to openness between siblings, causing tension in family relationships. Findings also suggest that when LGB individuals do come out the reactions from their heterosexual siblings are complex and often tied up in understandings of their relational family connections. Heterosexual sibling stories show a range of simultaneous, competing, and non-liner emotions about having an LGB brother or sister, including happiness, shock, concern, and anger. When attention is paid to the impact of disclosure over time this research shows that coming out can change the relationships between LGB and heterosexual brothers and sisters in mostly positive ways, although there can also be some negative consequences for these relationships. Sibling connections can become stronger, closer, and more supportive post disclosure. This seemingly troubles the persuasive discourses of crisis and rejection from families that have been entrenched in family coming out stories.
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Jasek, Michael Dan. "Moral development in gay men during the coming-out process." [Pensacola, Fla.] : University of West Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/WFE0000187.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of West Florida, 2009.Submitted to the Dept. of Professional and Community Leadership. Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 0 pages. Includes bibliographical references.
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Carter, Kimberly D. "PERCEIVED LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG GAY MALES: THE COMING-OUT PROCESS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/294.
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This research project was a mixed method of both a quantitative and qualitative design to examine the perception of 38 gay male’s life satisfaction post coming out. In the past few years, laws affecting the gay community have been at the forefront of policies and debates, given all communities an insight into the specific challenges that are endured. As the gay community starts to openly live their lives as a gay man, there has been a need to accept and understand not only the challenges, but to give acceptance.
Additionally, this project sought out to determine if the gay community feels that their life satisfaction has increased post coming out to their family, friends, and coworkers, furthermore to be able to live a life not of shame, but of pride and acceptance of themselves.
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Rodriguez, Denise M. Fournier. "Coming Out, Coming Together, Coming Around: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Families' Experiences Adjusting to a Young Family Member's Disclosure of Non-Heterosexuality." NSUWorks, 2014. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dft_etd/1.
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Young people who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) are disclosing their sexual identity--or coming out--at progressively younger ages, making it more important than ever for the general population to understand, tolerate, and accept diversity in sexual identity. This study was designed to fill the gap in the existing literature about how the coming out process affects LGB young people's families of origin. Three LGB young people participated in the study, along with a member of each of their families. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with each of the participants, as well as a conjoint interview with each of the three families.
The findings of this interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) study illustrate the many ways in which a young person's coming out reverberates within the family system, offering a relational understanding of the coming out experience. The results of the study emphasize the process-oriented nature of coming out and the means by which that process is influenced by and influences family relationships and overall family dynamics. Centered on the various ways in which LGB young people prepare to disclose their sexual orientation to their families and how their family members adjust to the disclosure, the study offers a historically and culturally situated overview of the coming out experience in the family. Based on the results of the present study, the researcher offers suggestions for future studies on this subject and presents the implications of the study for LGB young people, their families, and family therapists.
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Alidoosti, Babak. "The Process and Experience of Deciding to Live Openly Atheist in a Christian Family: A Qualitative Study." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36403.
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Existing literature reveals that atheists are among the least accepted groups in America. This study examined the process atheists go through when disclosing their atheism to their religious family members. It is hoped that the information gained may benefit therapists who work with this population as they go through this potentially difficult time and adds to the currently insufficient body of research on atheism and atheists. Using the guided frameworks of grounded theory and social exchange and choice theory, a focus group was conducted with seven atheists and coded for themes. The data revealed the disclosure process as happening in three main stages which cover how the atheists arrived at the belief system, how it was disclosed and its reception, and how relationships have been impacted since the disclosure. The clinical implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are also discussed.Master of Science
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Lutzo, Eric. "Coming Out and Being Out in the C-Suite: Experiences of Openly Gay and Lesbian Executives." Case Western Reserve University Doctor of Management / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casedm1568710731435133.
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Ertetik, Ilay. "Coming Out As A Political Act In Lgbt Movement In Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611923/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyzes the coming out action of individuals through perception of political identity. Instead of considering coming out as an individual experience, it is discussed as a political action that effects the others around the individual. This political action is examined from the Queer Theory&rsquos perspective of subverting the gender norms. The coming out experience of lesbians, gays and bisexuals not only has an impact of their personal environment, but also effects their relation to the LGBT movement. The importance of coming out in LGBT movement is explained through the interviews with lesbians, gays and bisexuals. Where they place themselves politically in their socialization process is analyzed. LGBT movement&rsquo
s historical background is introduced and compared with the movement in Turkey. The issues originate from Turkish society&rsquo
s social structure is indicated through interviews.
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Dowling, Shannon. "(Re)Constructing the self : lesbian identity and the Coming Out Stories /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ard747.pdf.
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New, Dawn E. "A thematic analysis of the "coming out" process for transgendered individuals." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1337201.
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This study examines the coming out process for transgendered individuals using the framework of Austin's speech act: the locutionary force, the illocutionary force, and the perlocutionary force. A grounded theory analysis of 43 letters in two different Internet databases revealed similarities and differences in the coming out process for transgendered individuals, compared to what we know about the process for gay and lesbian people. Similarities were found in all three acts: labels and scripts are used in the locutionary act; confession, education, affirmation and remorse are used as framing strategies in the illocutionary act; and rejection and acknowledgement are addressed in the perlocutionary act. Unique aspects of the coming out process for transgendered individuals include the importance of and reliance on labels in the locutionary act, education in the illocutionary act, and the visualization and cooperation of others in the perlocutionary act. These findings have a number of important practical and theoretical implications for interpersonal relationships and scholarship.Department of Communication Studies
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Meneray, Jennifer. "Coming Out| When Micro Level Vulnerabilities lead to Macro Level Risk." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10822934.
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Exploratory projects have the capability to emerge new ways of understanding data. Non-traditional perspectives, like the intersectional-vulnerability standpoint used in this project, enable researchers to step back and look at experiences differently. At the beginning of this paper, I relate my experience of coming out as lesbian to the experience of coming out as a child witness of abuse in order to set the standard of how I conceptualize coming out. Coming out was an experience that connects LGBTQ people across the spectrum allowing me to use that experience to bring LGBTQ identities together. Assumptions about the coming out experience in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity are challenged and a new theory emerges. Related to coming out, the experience of getting out of an abusive relationship reflects parallel perceptions around fear, risk, and vulnerability. It is by building the bridge between researcher and participants that I was able to challenge bias and create a new idea about the coming out/getting out process for LGBTQ survivors.
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Schapiro, Nancy Ellen. "The Experience of Coming Out for Lesbians Sexually Abused in Childhood." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26443.
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Although existing literature is rich with descriptions of the process of coming out for lesbian women, the present study is distinctive in its systematic examination of coming out from the perspective of lesbian women who were sexually abused as children. Through the hermeneutic-phenomenological analysis of interviews with selected participants who identified as lesbian women, the objective of this study was to identify and describe participantsâ perspectives of childhood sexual abuse, coming out experiences, and their perception of how these experiences might interrelate. Within the complex layers that were common to all the participants, the researcher attempted to interpret and make sense of phenomena across all cases, while respecting and recognizing the meanings that each participant brought to the interview.
The results of this study were consonant with findings from previous studies that suggested maintaining a lesbian identity is an ongoing task, continually informed by events and relationships that typically occur during the lifespan of an individual. However, in the course of this investigation, the findings pointed to a new understandingâ the coming out process becomes more complicated when histories of childhood sexual abuse need to be considered. While family and social factors had powerful influences on coming out for all the participants, the emotional and behavioral strategies that each woman adapted in order to cope with long-term sequelae of CSA, also appeared to have considerable impact on the coming out process as well.Ph. D.
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Hunter, Sam. "Coming Out Films: Speech, Cinema, and The Making of Queer Subjects." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1562942471272232.
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Benson, Brad. "Perceived Family Relationships Associated with Coming Out of Mormon Male Homosexuals." DigitalCommons@USU, 2001. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2675.
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This study is one of the first to include data from both male homosexuals and their family members to investigate disclosure of sexual orientation. Being homosexual in U.S. society can be particularly traumatic for males because strong pressures oppose the violation of masculine gender norms. Being homosexual and Mormon has unique complications. Reactions from the Mormon community toward individuals of homosexual orientation is defined by prevailing attitudes toward homosexuality, which are largely based on existing theories of etiology, attribution of etiology, and the religious and cultural beliefs extant in the community. The role of family relationships in the coming out process for Mormon male homosexuals contributed important information towards understanding their development.
As a particular example of families facing homosexuality, this qualitative study explored family characteristics reported by a sample of male homosexuals who were raised in Mormon families. Relying on reports from both homosexual males and their family members, these data inform how the coming out process is influenced by, and influences, family relationships, and expand knowledge about how family relations and culture influence development.
Findings showed that attitudes prevalent within family, church, and community influenced Mormon male homosexuals' decisions to come out. Religious influences on Mormon homosexuals and their family members had an inhibitory effect on the disclosure of sexual orientation and subsequent support and communication within family relationships. Expectations of negative response increased silence among Mormon male homosexuals about their sexual orientation and resulted in alienation from both church and family.
Mormon male homosexuals most wanted their family members to accept them and withhold judgment. They hoped for increased dialogue and understanding. Parents were typically distressed by the disclosure, with fathers having a stronger reaction than mothers. Relationships were strained in terms of family contact and communication. Family members who made efforts to gain information and understand the homosexual son were perceived as more supportive. Implications of how families and Church leaders can insulate the homosexual son from adverse social response and provide needed support are discussed.
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Baer, Jessica Kaye. "CLOSETS ARE FOR CLOTHES: PERCEIVED FAMILIAL REACTIONS WHEN A FAMILY MEMBER COMES OUT AS GAY." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1160665890.
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Gillie, Joyce F. "Coming into our own helping African American families to name, claim and live out their spirituality /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Miller, Andrew D. "Determinants of parental satisfaction with a child's disclosure of a gay or lesbian sexual orientation." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4420.
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This study was an attempt to begin to understand the phenomenon of coming out
from the parental perspective. Specifically, it focused on the factors contained within a
childâÂÂs disclosure of his or her sexual orientation and their impact on a parentâÂÂs
satisfaction with the disclosure.
Participants were eleven parents of gay and lesbian children. Participants were
interviewed individually regarding their memories of the moment that their children
revealed their sexual orientations to them. Participants were asked questions about the
parent/child relationship prior to the disclosure, questions about the disclosure as it
actually occurred, and were also asked to describe the most ideal coming out scenario
that they could imagine.
Interview data were analyzed according to the naturalistic inquiry process as
outlined by Lincoln and Guba (1985). The results indicate that there are two types of
components that influence parental satisfaction with the disclosure of a childâÂÂs sexual
orientation: relational components and process components. Relational components are
those aspects of the parent/child dynamic that influence a parentâÂÂs feelings of satisfaction regarding the disclosure experience. Process components are the specific
elements of the disclosure moment that influence a parentâÂÂs ability to assimilate the
information shared by the child and subsequently allow for the integration of that
information into their schema of the child and the parent/child relationship. These two
categories are discussed along with a proposed framework for understanding them as
well as methods of integrating them into an individualâÂÂs coming out script. The findings
of the current study may be useful in helping gay and lesbian children develop more
successful and accessible coming out disclosures which are targeted towards their
parents. In addition, these results may guide the interventions of mental health
professionals as they work with individuals who are preparing to come out to their
parents. Future studies that address the specific components mentioned within this study
would be useful, as would studies which address the coming out phenomenon from the
perspective of other family members.
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Summe, Lisa Marie. "Theoretical You." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71452.
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Theoretical You is a collection of autobiographical queer love poems told from the perspective of a single speaker. These love poems speak not only to lovers and exes, but also to lust and sex and desire, to the speaker's father (they do not reciprocate the cruelty he has shown her--they are neither malicious nor vindictive), and perhaps most importantly, to the speaker herself--she recognizes herself as a lesbian, as a human, who deserves to love and be loved.
While love is the crux of these poems, the collection is just as much about heartbreak (which is, of course, inevitably tied to love, is the consequence of love), heartbreak others have inflicted on the speaker and heartbreak she has inflicted on herself, having walked out on many of the women she addresses in the collection. The poems work to navigate the challenges of heartbreak by confronting homophobia, familial rejection, gender binaries and the appearance norms tied to them, as well as the grief that comes with simply being unable to stop missing someone. Here is a young woman who still loves every woman she has ever been with, who has so much love to give, who has a father who refuses to accept her, in a world that is often cruel. All of this together creates the complicated situation of being perpetually heartbroken, even when the speaker is happily in a relationship, even though she has learned to love herself.Master of Fine Arts
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Coolhart, Deborah Anne. "Sexual minority women exploring familial relationship development after coming out at home /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.
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Abelove, Samantha. "Coming Out of the Margins: LGBTI Activists in Costa Rica and Nicaragua." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/524.
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For decades LGBTQ rights have been approached purely by a legal strategy, in particular advocating for the legalization of same-sex marriage. However, discrimination and violence against the LGBTQ community continues to be a major issue in Latin America because of cultural values such as Catholicism and machismo that uphold a standard of and, in turn, have control over people’s sexuality. Using a human rights approach towards the politics of sexuality, LGBTI activists in Costa Rican and Nicaragua have been successful in transforming public opinion about sexuality and more importantly, sexual diversity. As a result of their egalitarian framework and efforts to educate people about sexual diversity, they have made great advancements toward achieving acceptance and equality for LGBTI people. This study focuses on how Costa Rican and Nicaraguan LGBTI activists have worked around traditional cultural values such as Catholicism and machismo that prevent people from accepting and tolerating LGBTI people. The examples of LGBTI activists in these two countries have important implications for other LGBTI activists and the strategies they use to try to achieve full equality (social and legal) for people whose sexual identity differs from the conventional.
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Weller, Christine E. "Sexual Orientation Discrimination| Effects of Microaggressions on Coming Out and Organizational Attraction." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10147040.
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Gorosabel, Idoia. "Straightening up and coming out documenting the heterosexual trajectory on TLC daytime /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004898.
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Tiano, Angela. "Becoming parents. Become Family. La genitorialità come nuova forma di coming out." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3425384.
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The birth of a child is a very important event in the household because it brings to renegotiate relationships and social representations inside and with a community.
When the birth regards a same-sex families, what are the dynamics inside? Which are areas of negotiation and recognition? Which are the support networks?
A part of the Italian and International literature argues that the "homosexual kinship" acts as a constraint, unlike a heterosexual kinship who is a resource for new parents. According to Kath Weston (1997), for example, gay and lesbian people are moving away from their original household to create your family network, which often consists of friends.
This intervention overturn this interpretation through the results of research carried out in Italy on the same-sex parents with children. Research has collected 23 in-depth interviews to lesbian mothers, 11 to gay fathers (in both cases these are people who live in large majority in a planned families) and 4 in-depth interviews a future gay fathers. Moreover, were collected 77 questionnaires to lesbian and bisexual mothers and 23 to gay and bisexual fathers.
The analysis of the material bring up the different ways in which the birth a child or/and a structuring a family with same-sex parents encourage forms of inclusion of new parents within their family and social networks. Inside these networks they exchange concrete help to manage the needs of everyday life as forms of legitimation of their "family". This concerns both mothers and fathers homosexuals as members of their families. It is not uncommon that they find confirmation of their
family expectations as grandparents, uncles, brothers, sisters, parents.La nascita di un figlio è un evento importante all'interno della famiglia poichè porta a rinegoziare le relazioni e le rappresentazioni sociali sia all'interno della coppia che all'esterno, verso la società. Quando la nascita riguarda una famiglia composta da due persone dello stesso sesso, quali dinamiche si creano? Quali sono gli spazi di negoziazione e ridefinizione? Quali sono le reti di supporto? Parte della letteratura nazionale e internazionale sostiene che la famiglia di origine delle famiglie composte da due persone dello stesso sesso funge da ostacolo mentre per le famiglie eterosessuali costituisce una risorsa. Kath Weston (1997) sostiene che le persone gay e lesbiche lasciano le loro famiglie di origine per creare nuove reti di relazioni, spesso costituite da amici. Tale contributo illustra i risultati di una ricerca condotta in Italia su famiglie composte da due persone dello stesso sesso con figli. La ricerca è costituita da 23 interviste a madri lesbiche e 11 interviste a padri gay, 4 interviste a futuri padri che hanno avuto figli all'interno della relazione di coppia, quale progetto condiviso. Inoltre, sono stati raccolti 77 questionari di madri lesbiche e 23 di padri gay. L'analisi dei risultati mostra come la nascita di un figlio funga da elemento di inclusione delle famiglie di origine ed elemento di "normalità" della famiglia omosessuale, per legittimare la coppia a "famiglia". All'interno di queste reti si scambiano aiuti concreti per gestire i bisogni della vita quotidiana.
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Wilken, Eric M. "Authentic LGBT Leadership: Being `Out Isn't Enough'." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1524662338719119.
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Williams, Elliot D. "Out of the Closets and Onto the Campus: The Politics of Coming Out at Florida Atlantic University, 1972-1977." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/252.
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This thesis examines gay student organizing to understand the role of college students in the burgeoning lesbian and gay movement of the 1970s. Although students are widely recognized as participants in gay activism in this period, few studies have attempted to explore their particular role. The Gay Academic Union (GAU) at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL, is presented as a case study, using archival and oral history research. Lesbian and gay students participated in the construction of a new political strategy based on visibility and community, which positioned “coming out” as its central metaphor. During the early to mid-1970s, students were especially well positioned to play a role in the gay movement, which relied on small, local organizations to spread gay politics throughout the nation. However, in the wake of the Anita Bryant-led effort to repeal Miami-Dade’s gay rights ordinance in 1977, the growth of national gay organizations and a national media discourse on homosexuality began to eclipse the type of organizing at which college students had excelled. By extending the narrative of gay organizing in the 1970s outside of urban centers, the story of the GAU at Florida Atlantic demonstrates that college students played a crucial part in disseminating the new forms of gay identity and culture associated with the gay movement.
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Carswell, Sade C. Carswell. "Cleaning out the Proverbial Closet: Delays in the Coming out Process of African American Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adolescents." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1526848432031933.
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Markowe, Laura Ann. "The 'coming out' process for lesbians : a comparison of lesbian and heterosexual perspectives." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1992. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1221/.
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Coming out', defined in terms of identifying self as lesbian, as well as disclosure of this information to others, is seen as an issue only within a heterosexist society. Heterosexism serves to reflect and create social representations, containing inflexible conceptualizations of gender, and social identities, incorporating power inequalities. The study was based on content analysis of individual semi-structured depth interviews, with forty lesbians on perceptions and experiences of coming out; thirty heterosexual women and men on attitudes to homosexuality; and twenty women on communication with family and friends. Lesbian and heterosexual interviews were supplemented with stereotype tasks, including the Bem Sex-Role Inventory and the Personal Attributes Questionnaire. Coming out to self was shown to be based upon strong emotional feelings directed towards women, together with awareness of lesbianism as an option, and a level of emotional acceptance of homosexuality. Coming out to family, heterosexual friends etc. involved risks and benefits. The study revealed a social context reflecting lesbian 'invisibility', heterosexuals' lack of interest and minimal contact with lesbians; perceptions of threat and abnormality; and a masculine, abnormal, aggressive, lesbian stereotype. Heterosexual subjects defined 'lesbian' in terms of sex only, and perceived lesbians as masculine. Lesbian subjects perceived lesbianism as more than sex, and lesbians as androgynous. Communication issues most similar to coming out concerned identity, relationships, or a different way of life; threat, loss or stigma; or reactions of others. Case studies analysed within Breakwell's threatened identity model suggested extension of the theory to include additional identity principles of authenticity/integrity and affiliation. It is argued that changes, at the level of social representations, relating to gender conceptualization, and the consequent power inequalities, are necessary for aiding the coming out process.
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Schumacher, Carol M. "The transformative aspects of the coming out process of lesbians and their families." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999schumacher.pdf.
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Saggese, Gustavo Santa Roza. "Quando o armário é aberto:visibilidade e estratégias de manipulação no coming out de homens homossexuais." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2009. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5484.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorA partir de nove entrevistas semi-estruturadas, conduzidas entre os meses de abril e outubro de 2008 com homens homossexuais entre vinte e seis e quarenta e dois anos de idade, oriundos de camadas médias e médias baixas do Rio de Janeiro e adjacências, o presente trabalho tem por objetivo compreender as maneiras pelas quais estes indivíduos se descobrem atraídos por pessoas do mesmo sexo e buscam meios de lidar com esse desejo. Ao mesmo tempo, procura entender como essa diferença se desloca do plano subjetivo e fala de si, o que é conhecido como sair do armário ou fazer o coming out, processo que parece ocorrer de modo descontínuo e incompleto, na medida em que estratégias de manipulação e ocultamento da orientação sexual frequentemente se mostram necessárias perante os diversos círculos de sociabilidade nos quais se transita regularmente, dentre os quais a família, o ambiente de trabalho e os amigos. A análise do discurso dos informantes, aliada a uma fundamentação teórica de cunho majoritariamente sócio-antropológico, permitiu depreender que há um anseio por reconhecimento, aceitação e respeito. Observou-se também a existência de certos mapeamentos, que abrangem preocupações com a aparência, controle de gestos e manifestações de afeto e a evitação de lugares tidos como hostis ou pouco tolerantes, visando a uma redução dos riscos de discriminação e violência.
Based upon nine semi-structured interviews, conducted between the months of April and October of 2008 with homosexual men between twenty-six and forty-two years old, arising from middle and middle-low classes from Rio de Janeiro and surroundings, this work aims to understand the ways by which these individuals find themselves attracted to same-sex people and look for means to deal with this desire. At the same time, it tries to understand how this difference is dislocated from the subjective level and speak up, what is known as to come out of the closet or simply coming out, a process that seems to occur in a discontinued and incomplete way, since management and concealing strategies of sexual orientation are frequently required before the various sociability circles in which they move through on a regular basis, among which family, workplace and friends are included. The analysis of the informants‟ discourse, combined with a mainly socio-anthropological theoretical foundation, led to conclude that there is a yearn for recognition, acceptance and respect. Certain mappings, which cover concerns with appearance, gesture and affection display controls and avoidance of places considered to be hostile or little tolerant, were also observed as a way of lowering discrimination and violence risks.
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Reis, Denise Filipa da Silva. "Convergências e divergências familiares em torno da orientação sexual dos filhos: um estudo exploratório." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/22817.
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A abordagem da problemática da homossexualidade tem vindo a ganhar lugar ao longo dos últimos anos, no entanto, a existência de trabalhos sobre este tema conjugado com a família nuclear (pai e mãe) é praticamente inexistente, embora de grande relevância. Assim, a presente investigação tem como objetivo verificar qual o tipo de perceção de aceitação que é apreendido pela pessoa homossexual tendo esta efetuado o processo de coming out perante os progenitores ou encontrando-se na eminência de o fazer. Os resultados obtidos, através da análise de conteúdo das entrevistas efetuadas, revelam-nos que o processo de aceitação dos progenitores, percecionado pelos filhos é maioritariamente negativo. O processo de auto-aceitação por parte dos participantes que efetuaram o processo de coming out mostrou-se maioritariamente complicado; Families Convergences and Divergences Around Children Sexual Orientation: An Exploratory Study
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The way of addressing the problematics of homosexuality has been increasing in the last couple of years. Nevertheless, scholarly work regarding this topic along with the subject of nuclear family (father and mother) is practically nonexistent, despite being of great relevance, therefore the aim of the present research is to verify what is the kind of perception of acceptance realized by the homosexual person having underwent the process of coming out before the parents or if this same process is imminent. The results obtained through the analysis of content present in the interviews which were conducted, reveal us that the process of parents' acceptance as perceived by their sons is mostly negative. The process of self-acceptance from the ones who underwent the process of coming out before the parents turned out to be a difficult one, for the most part.