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Index: Identity Formation  &  Coming Out - - Counseling  &  Therapy - - Professional Education  - - Homo-Negativity / Phobia - - Lesbian  &  Bisexual Women - - Transgender / Transvestite / Transsexual - - Bisexuality - - Public School Issues - - Religion   &  Spirituality - - Homosexuality:  Biological  or  Learned ? - - Male  Youth Prostitution - - HIV-AIDS - - Gay & Bisexual Male Suicide Problems - - Drug / Alcohol Use / Abuse / Addiction  - - GLBT  History - - Community Attributes  &  Problems - - Couples / Families / Children / Adoption / Spousal Violence - - The Elderly - - Race/Ethnic Minority Issues: U.S., Canada, Europe,  New Zealand & Australia - - Latin America / Africa - - Middle East / Asia

Identity   Formation &  Coming Out

"Depuis que la visibilité a gagné la rue et que la tolérance vis-à-vis des homos a grimpé dans les sondages, une croyance tenace a aussi envahi les esprits: celle qui consiste à penser qu’il est beaucoup plus facile pour les jeunes, aujourd’hui, de faire leur coming out. Il n’en est rien..."

Translation:

'The increasing gay visibility and tolerance of gay people has been associated with the strong belief that it is far easier for contemporary gay youth to come out. This is not true.'

Troiden's model of the formation of homosexual identities. - Cass’ model of gay and lesbian identity formation. - Five Stages of Coming Out. - The Stages of Coming Out. -  SIECUS: Sexual Orientation and Identity. - Defining sexual orientation. - Sexual Identity and Gender Identity Glossary: Text of a pamphlet which defines common terms in the gender- and sexual-identity communites, including androgeny, butch, camp, drag, femme, and transvestite.- Sexual Identity and Gender Identity Glossary (Alternate Link). - Sex School: Reading the Gendermap. - Transgender Identity. - The Gender Identity Fallacy: How an Irrational Concept Prevents a Rational Understanding of Transsexuality.  - Confused and Hurting, Teens Are “Coming Out” Earlier. - Coming Out is Getting Harder. - Acts of ‘coming out’ and the development of resilience (PDF Download). - Sexual Disorientation. - Gay By Choice? The Science of Sexual Identity: If science proves sexual orientation is more fluid than we've been led to believe, can homosexuality still be a protected right?

The Closet: Psychological Issues of Being In and Coming Out: (Alternate Link) Closeted individuals frequently cannot acknowledge to themselves, let alone to others, their homoerotic feelings, attractions and fantasies. Their homosexuality is so unacceptable that it must be kept out of conscious awareness and cannot be integrated into their public persona. Consequently, these feelings must be dissociated from the self and hidden from others. If and when same-sex feelings and attractions can no longer be kept out of consciousness, the individual becomes homosexually self-aware. Individuals to whom this happens can acknowledge some aspect of their homosexuality to themselves. While homosexually self-aware people might consider accepting and integrating these feelings into their public persona, acceptance is not a pre-determined outcome. For example, a religious, homosexually self-aware man may choose a celibate life to avoid what, for him, would be the problematic integration of his religious and sexual identities.

The Self-Discovery of Being Queer. - Why should gender or sexuality define our identity? - (Be)Coming out: lesbian identity and politics. - Defining terms used in working with male-to-male sex: PDF Download. - Faire les premiers pas à la recherche de son identité sexuelle N/A. - Feeling comfortable with your sexual orientation - Men with homosexuality (PDF Download). - Feeling comfortable with your sexual orientation - Women with homosexuality (PDF Download). - Coming Out: 6 steps to coming out of the closet as a gay person. - Coming out as an adult. - Coming Out Trans.

Two-spirit people and sexual diversity. - Asians, Cultural Attitudes and Sexual Identity. - The Mixed-Race Queer Girl Manifesto. - My Identity: Who Am I? Korean-American? Queer? Man?  - Teen's journey to transgender identity. - Concordance between sexual behavior and sexual identity in street outreach samples of four racial/ethnic groups. - "Coming Out" Is Still Difficult For Korean American Daughters.

The "g0y" phenomenon: Their slogan is "G0ys take the 'A' out of 'Gay'. They are men who have feelings of "real warmth and affection for other guys" but do not classify themselves as homosexual. Turned off by the idea of anal sex, g0ys enjoy being affectionate with other men, whether that means kissing, cuddling, hugging, drunken wrestling (according to http://www.g0ys.org) or oral stimulation. Furthermore, while they respect masculinity, they detest the ways in which homosexuality has been linked to effeminacy. - G0YS.org - Spelled with a ZER0. - g0ydar. - g0y sites & groups.

Sexual labels: useful & limiting. - I Think I Might Be Bisexual, Now What Do I Do? - The Bisexual Identity. - Bisexuality Basics. (PDF Download) - Japanese male gay and bisexual identity. - Reflections on Coming Out. -  "It's me. I'm it.": defining adolescent sexual identity through relational dialectics in Dawson's Creek. - Apples and Oranges: My Journey to Sexual Identity: "Most Gay people have pondered the following notion, however fleeting or subconscious: What if, after coming out to family, friends, and co-workers, I fall in love with a member of the opposite sex." - Témoignages : le jour où j’ai découvert mon homosexualité. - Who Am I?:  What is it?  What if i'm not sure? About relationships? 'Out' to be gay. Sex to know if i'm a gay? What about aids? Tell my family? Tell my friends? What will they say Get more information? A final word...Gay teens coming out earlier to peers and family. - Coming Out In College: Confronting One's Sexual Identity (PDF Download).  - Inside and Outside the Closet: Coming Out and Binary Social Structures. - Narrative Psychology: Gay and Lesbian Identity.

Coming Out in the Sciences: A Graduate Student's Perspective. - Coming out in college residence halls: Negotiation, meaning making, challenges, supports. - Self-Help Information: Coming Out. - Coming out, finding a fit: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students share advice on searching for inclusive programs, coming out and more. - Olson's poetry explodes issues of sexual identity.  - Coming out from behind closed doors: For gay and lesbian musicians, it’s the music that really matters. - Coming Out in Corporate America.

Androgyny and Gender Dialectics. - Border Crossings. - Homosexuality; choice or fixed orientation? - Answers to Your Questions About Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality by the American Psychological Association. -  Sexual Orientation: Questions and Answers for Teens. - Boys will be girls. - It's what you do: Most of the men who have sex with men in the South probably don’t identify themselves as ‘gay’ or ‘bisexual’. - Gay Shame Conference (2003). - It’s Not Coming Out, So Then What Is It? Sexual Identity and the Ex-Gay Narrative (PDF Download). - True Life: I’m Coming Out (Film): Program Overview and Questions for Discussion. - When Kids Come Out of The Closet: What to say and do when a student tells you he's gay.

Comparative Female Masculinities (Judith Halberstam, University of Southern California) (Abstract, Must Scroll: PDF Download. Full text): "Recent anthropological work on "same-sex female desire" has been rightly hesitant about using the term "lesbian" for variations on same sex desire found in different parts of the globe. Where anthropologists have used a Euro-American template to read and study same sex female desires in non-Western contexts, they have run the risk of obliterating alternative sexual economies and taxonomies. My paper will look at comparative renderings of "female masculinity," a non-identitarian model of gender, and will ask whether we can draw any kind of meaningful parallels between "tombois" in Indonesia, onabes in Japan, T's in Taiwan, toms in Thailand, marimachas in Mexico and tomboys in the Philippines, just to give a few examples. My paper is less an account of these different models of gender variance and more of a search for a methodology for studying gender variance in a comparative framework."

Orientational Diversity: A New Spin, Part 1: "In this first of a three-part series, the author invites us to recognize the ways we unconsciously label ourselves when we play by and listen to society’s recordings. The b-side may surprise and enlighten you." - The Myth of Queer Labelling. - La science nouvelle: La sexualité du futur. - How many homosexuals are there? -  Bisexuality: identities behaviors, and politics. - Attracted to men? Attracted to women? Attracted to both?? - Behaviour / feelings / identity : 3 aspects of sexuality. - Possible reasons for picking your sexual identity. - Bi diversity. - Bisexuality and relationships. - Seven popular myths about bisexuality. - Some classic elements of bi-prejudice. - Five basic ways to be supportive of someone who's coming out as bi. - Social Protest and the Performance of Gay Identity (Related Information).

Beyond Gay Identity. - Having Sex With Men Does NOT Make Larry Craig Gay. - Valuing a Gay or Lesbian Self-Identity. - Gay Men and Social Exclusion (PDF Download): "If we are to practice effective health promotion with all gay men, we need to leave the notion of a totalising gay identity behind." - Spirited Identity (PDF Download N/A): "`We were interested in how these men managed to hold a Jewish identity and a gay identity simultaneously... We had assumed that gay identity would take priority but for some of our participants, that wasn't the case ­ they were primarily Jewish men who were also gay.'" - Sexuality and space: sexual identity in South African mine compounds  and prison (PDF Download). - Gay and Lesbian Youth Fare Well Psychologically Despite Chronic Stress. - The Process of Gay Identity: Internalized Homophobia. - Media and memory: building a gay subjectivity. - GLBTQ On Coming Out. - Coming Out: Journey without Maps. - Coming Out to Oneself as Bisexual. - Coming Out of the Coming Out Story: Writing Queer Lives. - Sexual identity getting difficult to keep straight. 

Homosexuality. Why all the fuss?  "Benin, West Africa. The year is 1976. Two women get chatting on a bus. One is a local woman, the other a European. Towards the end of their journey the African invites the other to stay with her large family. That night they sleep together in one bed. They talk for a while, then, responding to each other’s gestures, they make love. The next morning the European woman asks her new friend whether she often has such experiences with other women, and how she feels about being a lesbian. Astonished, the African woman answers that it is quite usual for her to let a friend comfort her in this way. Later, describing the event, Dutch sociologist Ingrid Foeken comments: ‘For her the incident had nothing to do with homosexuality. She asked me how my friends and I offered each other comfort, which was when I realized how painfully our Western habits contrasted with hers. What she had experienced as comfort had seemed to me at the time to be lesbian lovemaking. In Western culture most sexual activities come with some kind of label. And it is virtually impossible for two people of the same gender to exchange sexual affection without having to ask themselves: what does this make me? What will others think of me? Will their attitude towards me change? Will they be hostile, rejecting? Sexual identity matters intensely to most of us. And we behave as if it is fixed and tells us exactly what a person is. The people who at this moment are beating up a gay man or a lesbian in Liverpool or Bombay or Los Angeles have identified that person as a homosexual. The hundreds of thousands of people who parade through the streets of capital cities on Gay Pride marches once a year, do so because they identify themselves as lesbians and gays..."

Be Yourself (From PFLAG): Questions and Answers for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth - Includes - "I think I might be gay. But what if I don't know for sure?" - I might be gay, what do I do? - I might be a lesbian, what do I do? - You know your gay when ... - The Relationship between Gay and Lesbian Identity Development and Psychological Adjustment. -  Transitions from Heterosexuality to Lesbianism: The Discursive Production of Lesbian Identities. -  Growing Up with a "Spoiled Identity": Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth at Risk.

Butch: What defines "straight acting", or "femme", or "butch"? Columnist Alan Ilagan gives his perspective and what his role in the stereotypes is. (Other Articles. - Alan's Web Site) - The man who made gays macho. - Beyond Lisping: code switching and gay speech styles. - Butchs-fems, un combat de genre. - Genres et orientations sexuelles: une question d'apparences?

Comment puis-je savoir si je suis homosexuel? - Comment fait-on pour savoir si on est homosexuel?  - Le fait homosexuel. - Je pense être gai ... ... qu'est-ce que je fais? - L'Express - Dossier - Etre homosexuel aujourd'hui. - Réponse à: ALAIN (je ne veux pas être homosexuel). -
Peur d'être homosexuel. - Est-ce vrai que chez les homosexuels on fait une différence entre les termes suivants : "tapette", "gay" et "homosexuel"?  Merci pour votre réponse. -  Vogay: Association vaudoise de personnes concernées par l'homosexualité. - Autour du coming-out: Quand la sortie est mal acceptée par la famille Réfléchir avant de sortir de son placard.

Coming Out and Being Out: What You May Need to Think About.- Coming Out, An Act of Love. - The HRC Resource Guide to Coming Out. - Out on Fraternity Row: Brotherly Love: An Excerpt. - The role of the Internet in facilitating the "coming-out" process of gay and lesbian youth: An ethnographic study. - Narratives of women's sexual identity development: A collaborative inquiry with implications for rewriting transformative learning theory. - Coming out carefully N/A. - Closets Are Not For Us: Views From Five Lesbians. - Gays and Lesbians who come out later in life face different challenges. - Coming Out in Communities of Color. - Coming Out in Communities of Color: African Americans: PDF Download. - Coming Out in Communities of Color: Latinas/Latinos. - Asian Pacific Americans and Coming Out. - Friendly advice: Coming out to friends, and what approach to take. - Gay & Lesbian Adoptees: Coming Out Again. 

Introduction to coming out. - The process of coming out. - The Process of Coming Out: A Journey (PDF Download). -  Coming Out. -  Read this before coming out to your parents. (PFLAG). - Resources from PFLAG. - Chapter 1: Homosexuality: The Shocking Discovery. - Gay Men, Coming Out - What Does Coming Out Mean? - Landmark survey shows gay youth coming out earlier than ever. - Assumer son homosexualité lorsqu'on est adolescent(e). - Coming Out as a Straight Ally. - Films related to Coming Out. - Coming Out - My Story. - Disclosing a Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual Identity in Graduate Psychology Programs: Risks and Rewards. - Acts of 'coming out' and the development of resilience.

Some suggestions for coming out to parents, relatives, and non-gay friends. - Growing Up Gay New York may be the best place in America to come out. Which doesn't necessarily mean it's easy -- especially if you're 16. Rory Evans reports from the teen front. - Parental Reactions to Their Child's Disclosure of A Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual Identity N/A by Richard Savin-Williams. - Homophobia: Discrimination and violence can male 'coming out' a dangerous choice. - L adolescente omosessuale e la sua famiglia d origine: PDF Download.

The OutProud "Coming Out" Archives: Personal Stories / Personal Journeys. Categories - Male / Female / M2F / F2M / Other - and by age groups. - Coming Out and Staying Out Guide for gay and bisexual men. - Coming Out: Realizing Bisexuality In A Straight World. - Coming out advice for GLB individuals in Trinidad. - Trinicontact reports on his coming out to self and others. - Coming Out: Resources and Readings (PDF Download). 

Expressing Our Needs: Coming Out for Transsexuals and Transvestites. - Transgender: What is it? - Is This Child Gay, Transgendered, or Both? (PFLAG). - Myth, Stereotype, and Cross-Gender Identity in the DSM-IV. - An open letter to the parents of transsexual children. (Alternate Link) - Disclosure: Share It Or Bear It. - Coming Out as Transgender. - Coming Out Of The Classroom Closet. - ‘Coming Out’ as a Catholic School Teacher.

Coming Out in Spanish."Raymond Pifferrer's father, a Cuban-born janitor, threw him through a window when he told his father he was gay. "- Coming out - what does coming out mean? - Coming of Age and Coming Out: Representations of Gays and Lesbians in Young Adult Literature. - The Importance of coming Out: Techniques for Success. - Coming out in Africa. - Coming out in Africa: Anthony Orliange previews Dakan, the first African movie about homosexuality. - Family Adjustment Following Disclosure of Homosexuality by a Member: Themes Discerned in Narrative Accounts.

A coming out guide for gaydads. -  A gay dad comes out, reports on his attraction to a man as a boy, and then - after a marriage - comes out to himself and others - to then become the major force in the founding of: - The Lambda Institute for Gay and Lesbian Studies (Edmonton, Alberta). - Out Of The Closet And Out Of The Family [and suicide related problems].. - Out of the closet. - Outing In Gay Paree. - Out of the Closet and On to Fraternity Row: Gay college kids are making their brotherhood official on U.S. campuses.

Gay Asians hesitant to 'come out' in New Zealand (Must Scroll): "Asian lesbian, gays and bisexuals (LGBs) in New Zealand are more likely to keep their sexuality a secret compared with Westerners , a Massey University study says. Senior social work lecturer Mark Henrickson said his findings reinforced the notion that the idea of having an LGB identity was a highly westernised, European concept... In New Zealand's largest study of LGB people, Dr Henrickson surveyed 2269 respondents, of which 491 (21 per cent) were born overseas. Of these nearly 11 per cent were Asian. The study found that while Asian-born immigrants were aware of having same-sex attractions at an earlier age, they were less likely to tell friends, family or colleagues as they grew older. Only 3 per cent of non-Asian respondents said they hadn't disclosed their identity to anyone, compared with 15.3 per cent of Asian people..."

The importance of being "out" in many cases (Newsweek) N/A. - Secrets and lies take a hefty toll on Gay lives. - Coming out as spiritual revelation N/A.(Not Available from the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review)  - The Gift That Never Goes Out of Fashion; The Truth. -  "Out" problems in law school.

Coming-Out Stories Collection N/A. - From Yawning Bread (Singapore):  Asian Coming Out Stories Google Search at YawningBread.org: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. The Case for Remaining in the Closet. - "(Oh no!) I'm Gay!" - Breaking Out (of the closet). - Yagga Yagga (Support Group). - Guidelines to Help School Personnel Respond to GLBT Students When They Disclose Their Sexual Orientation. - Guidelines for Coming Out to Parents.

Elite athletes inch out: Volleyball coach was fired for being a lesbian.  All of the panelists agree that sports helped them through adolescence. "Swimming saved my life," says gold medal swimmer Mark Tewksbury, 31. "I was so ostracized in high school. [Swimming] gave me a place where people wanted to be like me. It gave me confidence."

My Personal Story: Growing Up Gay [and coming out in Sweden]. - Lesbian & Gay The Swedish Way (A booklet).   (Same Booklet in Spanish: La Homosexualidad es Amor.)

Australia's "Get all the facts on the ins and outs of being young & queer in the 90's". 

From Medscape: -  For Family Physicians: "Homosexuality in Adolescence is Important to Identify." (Must register for access.) - Gay and Lesbian Resources from psychpage.com such as: Coming Out, Coming Out to Parent, Issues for Gay and Lesbian Adolescents.

Can we understand? A guide for parents. (PFLAG)  - Help for parents with gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered child. - Casual Remarks, Daggers Through the Heart. - On the Outs: Living Proof Helps Gay City Teens Cope With Coming Out of the Closet.

The social construction of identities: "The perils of postmodernism". - The social construction of homosexuality. - The social construction of male homosexuality, related suicide problem. -  A Critique of Social Constructionism and Postmodern Queer Theory.  - Des identités homosexuelles:  Propos sur la génèse et les avatars d'un genre contesté. - Studies on Gay & Lesbian Language: A Partial Bibliography. - The Scenography of HIV Infection for Young Gay Men: Educating Emotion and Desire: Individuation and sexual identity.

Young people, leisure and the construction of sexual identities: a report on work in progress by Martin Holt (PDF Download): "My research therefore seeks to problematise the concepts of ‘youth’ and ‘sexual identity’ employed in mainstream psychological research and employ alternative qualitative approaches to investigate how young people construct their own identities in talk about their lives. For me identity, is not fixed, unvarying and essential as often portrayed in research on sexual identity (e.g. Troiden, 1988), but instead is an ongoing process, subject to change and fluidity, contingent on the social and historical setting, and contested and enacted in discourse (Butler, 1990; Sampson, 1989; Weeks, 1995). Any sense of fixity and coherence we experience in our identities requires ongoing work at a personal and social level to weave convincing ‘narratives of the self’ (Giddens, 1991; Plummer, 1995), together with work at a cultural and ideological level to preserve the idea of subjectivity as unified and individually-based (here in the West)." - Leisure, Narratives and the Construction of Identity Among Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Youth by Beth D. Kivel.

Un-queer anti-theory. - Multiple Masculinity's a world of subculture and homosexual interaction. - The Role of Masculinity in Male Homosexual Culture N/A (by Shazza Nakkim, 1999). - The Range of Sexual Identity. - The (Re) Construction of African-American Masculinity -- Homosexuality (Janice Cools, 1998). - Boys in Schools: Addressing the Politics of Hegemonic Masculinities. - Foucauldian Cautions on the Subject and the Educative Implications of Contingent Identity. - Décade de Cerisy sur la propriété. "Sex is but something else to belong to". L'identité sexuelle comme propriété?

Les méandres de l'identité et de l'orientation sexuelle des hommes. - Exploration of the Preconceived Notions of Homosexuality. - An Analysis: heterosexuality in the male. - A queer geography: journeys toward a sexual self: "'Do Gays exist?' is the provocative question behind Frank Browning's latest jaunt around the globe." - Identité homosexuelle et communauté gaie. - Gay and homosexual are terms, used sometimes interchangeably, but the two words have different meanings. - Social Protest and the Performance of Gay Identity. - New Directions for Gay Liberation: The Politics of Identity.

Gay Identities, communities and places in the 1990s in Istanbul. - Performing Sexual Identity: Naming and Resisting 'Gayness' in Modern Thailand. - Greek Masculinity and Male Homosexuality. - Young people, leisure and the construction of sexual identities: a report on work in progress (PDF Download). - Lesbian Identity Development, Parental Acceptance, and Self Esteem among Hong Kong Lesbians - 2002 - by Fiona Ho Man Lam, Catherine McBride-Chang: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Word 97 Download). - Tomboi masculinities and the transgression of gender in the Indonesian state - by Evelyn Blackwood (Draft paper for the IASSCS Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 1-3, 2001: Word 97 Download N/A). - Gay identity in university EFL courses in Japan. - Coming Out in Japan: Book Review. - Coming Out by South Asian Gay Men in the United Kingdom. - Coming out in China. 

La construction de l'identité homosexuelle dans les lois aux états-unis et en france, , Scott Gunther DEA de Sciences Sociales, EHESS, ENS Paris, 1995. - Le mouvement homosexuel français face aux stratégies identitaires, Yves Roussel, Les Temps Modernes, mai-juin 1995. (PDF Download, or access web page for PDF Download) - Le lexeme comme facteur identitaire: le cas des homosexuels a Istanbul, Philippe-Schmerka Blacher, mai 98. - The Sociology of Sexualities: Queer and Beyond.

The Kingdom in the Closet (Part of Article): (Alternate Link) (Alternate Link) (Alternate Link) Sodomy is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, but gay life flourishes there. Why it is “easier to be gay than straight” in a society where everyone, homosexual and otherwise, lives in the closet... “It’s a lot easier to be gay than straight here,” he had said. “If you go out with a girl, people will start to ask her questions. But if I have a date upstairs and my family is downstairs, they won’t even come up.” ... "They’re quite shameless about it." Talal, a Syrian who moved to Riyadh in 2000, calls the Saudi capital a "gay heaven." This is surprising enough. But what seems more startling, at least from a Western perspective, is that some of the men having sex with other men don’t consider themselves gay. For many Saudis, the fact that a man has sex with another man has little to do with "gayness." The act may fulfill a desire or a need, but it doesn’t constitute an identity. Nor does it strip a man of his masculinity, as long as he is in the "top," or active, role. This attitude gives Saudi men who engage in homosexual behavior a degree of freedom. But as a more Westernized notion of gayness -- a notion that stresses orientation over acts -- takes hold in the country, will this delicate balance survive? ... When Yasser hit puberty, he grew attracted to his male cousins. Like many gay and lesbian teenagers everywhere, he felt isolated. "I used to have the feeling that I was the queerest in the country," he recalled. "But then I went to high school and discovered there are others like me. Then I find out, it’s a whole society." ,,, In Saudi Arabia, "It’s easier to be a lesbian [than a heterosexual]. There’s an overwhelming number of people who turn to lesbianism," Yasmin said, adding that the number of men in the kingdom who turn to gay sex is even greater. "They’re not really homosexual," she said. "They’re like cell mates in prison." ,,, What is ‘gay’? In The History of Sexuality, a multivolume work published in the 1970s and ’80s, Michel Foucault proposed his famous thesis that Western academic, medical, and political discourse of the 18th and 19th centuries had produced the idea of the homosexual as a deviant type: In Western society, homosexuality changed from being a behavior (what you do) to an identity (who you are). In the Middle East, however, homosexual behavior remained just that -- an act, not an orientation. That is not to say that Middle Eastern men who had sex with other men were freely tolerated. But they were not automatically labeled deviant. The taxonomy revolved around the roles of top and bottom, with little stigma attaching to the top. "‘Sexuality’ is distinguished not between ‘homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ but between taking pleasure and submitting to someone (being used for pleasure),"...A magazine editor in Jeddah told me that many boys in Mecca, where he grew up, have sexual relations with men, but they don’t see themselves as gay. Abubaker Bagader, a human-rights activist based in Jeddah, explained that homosexuality can be viewed as a phase. "Homosexuality is considered something one might pass by," he said. "It’s to be understood as a stage of life, particularly at youth." This view of sexual behavior, in combination with the strict segregation of the sexes, serves to foster homosexual acts, shifting the stigma onto bottoms and allowing older men to excuse their younger behavior -- their time as bottoms -- as mere youthful transgressions...

Veil of Separation, Veils of Identity: But it prompts the question: why do homosexuals exist in societies where a separation of sexes doesn't necessarily apply? Moreover, does such a separation predicate the effect of genuine homosexual desires? And then, are these so-called "homosexuals" homosexuals in the sense that we in the West have defined it? Or are they individuals forced to fulfill a natural desire in the only way they can? Maybe homosexuals [or men who engage in sex with other men] in countries like Saudi Arabia are not necessarily "in the closet" but actually free from having to identify themselves. And rather, we [both homosexuals and heterosexuals in the West] are trapped in a closet of our own, a closet of monosexuality where we veil ourselves with endless layers attempting to define and label sexualities that we eventually [like with everything] ship and market around the world [the international gay?!?].

Des identités homosexuelles - Propos sur la génèse et les avatars d'un genre contesté, Cécile Bénito de Sanchez, Revue h, été 1996. (PDF Download, or access web page for PDF Download) - Genres et orientations sexuelles: une question d'apparences?, Rommel Mendès-Leité, 1990. (bibliographie) Publication originale : Mendès-Leite, R. " Genres et orientations sexuelles: une question d'apparences ? ". GREH et. al. Homosexualités et Lesbianisme: mythes, mémoires, historiographies. Actes du colloque international (3 volumes). Lille, Cahiers GKC, 1989-1990. pp. 109 - 147. - Des folles de Saint-Germain-des-Prés au fléau social. Le discours homophile contre l'efféminement dans les années 50 : une expression de la haine de soi ? par Georges Sidéris (2000).

Lesbian Identity and the Politcs of Butch-Femme Roles. - Butch - Femme Information. - Butch An Evolving Identity. - Butch-Femme Resources on the Web. - The Porcelain Throne: Meditations by a hickster dyke on the conundrums of identity, activism, diversity, and toilets (On Labels). - On Sexuality, Labels and Identity. - Sorting the Alphabet Soup of Sexual Orientation and Identity: a Guide to LBGT Sources (PDF Download).

"Journal of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity" to "International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies." - Straight School, Gay Lives. Managing Gay Identity in a Heterosexual Environment: Field Research Project Based on Interviews with Gay Men at The Wharton Business School. - Creating Accessible Queer Community: Intersections and Fractures with Dis/Ability Praxis.

Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy ( Adopted as the Official Journal of the Association of Gay nd Lesbian Psychiatrists): Links to Abstract for Volumes 1 to.... -  Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services: Issues in Practice, Policy, and Research: Links to Abstract for Volumes 1 to.... - Sexual identity therapy: Practice guidelines for managing sexual identity conflicts (Word Download). 

Coming of Age and Coming Out: Representations of Gays and Lesbians in Young Adult Literature Rob Linné. Reprinted from Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education Fall 1996, pp. 71-87. 9  (Full Text online) - Articles by members of Treeroots exploring Gay Psyche in Psychology, History, Politics, Spirit, Sexuality,Culture and Soul.

WS 375 NAT Topics: Sexual Outlaws (Instructor: Jessica Nathanson, Fall 1997): The purpose of this class is to provide a comprehensive understanding of sexualities and sexual identities in America. To this end, we will spend the semester examining sexual cultures and identities that are outside American"norms". We will begin by exploring more generally the social construction of identity, noting the ways that gender, racial, and sexual identities intersect and collide, and are, as Dana Takagi says, "qualitative," rather than "quantitative," in nature. From here, we will move on to an overview of "Western" and "non-Western" conceptualizations of sex and gender, recognizing that such notions are located in and very much a product of particular times and places, and thus far from universal. We will then begin our study of outlaw sexualities, focusing first on an interrogation of the origin and eventual "norming" of heterosexuality as an identity before moving on to explore gay male identity and community and the political construction (and deconstruction) of lesbian identity. Finally, we will focus on women's core concerns in several identity groups that have recently emerged from within the larger gay/lesbian community -- bisexuality, butch-femme, S/M, sex work, and transgenderism-- and on the relationships between these "sub-subcultures" and the larger lesbian culture."

The Ultimate "Planet Out" Guide to Queer Movies (Subject: Coming Out). - Out: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Youth (Film, 1993). - Boys Don't Cry - Movie Review.

Éloge de la diversité sexuelle - 1999 - par Michel Dorais. "Partant de ce fait évident que la plupart d'entre nous vivent leur sexualité dans un régime binaire (homme/femme, masculin/féminin, hétéro-/homo-, etc.), Michel Dorais s'attaque aux stéréotypes des intégrismes fondant ce qu'il appelle « l'apartheid sexuel." - Gay liberation: is the fight over? Presentation to Marxism 2001 conference, University of Technology Sydney, 26 August 2001 (PDF Download)

Internet Resources:- Coming Out Resources. - HRC: National Coming Out Project Homepage. - Google Directory: GLB. - Google Directory: Transgender. - about.com's resources. - Outfront. - PrideLinks.com: Groups & Identity. -  Bisexual. - Gay Men. -  Lesbians - Transgender & Transsexual. -  & others. - Coming Out Resources from Looksmart. - Gayscape. - Coming Out Resources. - NFC's Coming Our Resources. - Coming Out Resources for Lesbians. - PFLAG: Coming Out and Support Resources for Everyone. - Coming Out & Sexuality. - Coming Out Stories. - Lesbian Articles on Coming Out. 

Search GLBTQ: The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture. - Search BGLAD. - Search the QRD. - Search all GLBT Resource Directories. - Search Google.com. - Search Google Scholar. - Search Google's G:LBT Directory. - MSN Search. - Search findarticles.com: many full text articles and papers.

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BOOKS on coming out issues: Search with terms: "coming out".  - Books on Coming Out/Youth Issues.  -Tucson-Pima Public Library. - Bibliography of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Coming Out Issues. - Hares-Hyenas: Coming Out Books. - Bibliography: Self acceptance of a gay identity: "coming out" - APA Selected Bibliography - Lesbian and Gay Development. - Working Out Bibliography: GLB Career Issues. - Books on coming out in the workplace. - Polyamory-Related Books - Coming Out. - Powell's Books - Gay and Lesbian Studies-Coming Out and Families. - Coming Out Books from Amazon & CompaqPLUS.- A Short Bibliography of Writings on Gay Shame. - Coming Out: A Bibliography for & about Gay & Lesbian Teens (PDF Download). - Ron's Books: Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way.

Books: - Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities over the Lifespan: Psychological Perspectives - 1996 - edited by Anthony R D'Augelli and Charlotte Patterson (Review) (35 Sample Pages). - Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities in Families: Psychological Perspectives - 1998 - edited by Charlotte Patterson, and Anthony R. D'Augelli (24 Sample Pages) (Review). - Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities and Youth: Psychological Perspectives - 2001 - edited by Charlotte J. Patterson. Anthony R. D'Augelli (24 Sample Pages). - Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences - 1992 - by Ken Plummer (Abstract) (Routledge Reference).  - Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology - 1994- edited by Bennett L. Singer (Abstract) (Barnes & Noble Reference) (Amazon.com Reference). - Positively Gay: New Approaches to Gay and Lesbian Life - 1992 - edited by Betty Berzon (Abstract) (11 Sample Pages). -

Books: - PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality - 1997 - edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (Review) (9 Sample Pages) (Abstract, Contents).  - The Other Side of the Closet: The Coming-Out Crisis for Straight Spouses and Families, Revised and Expanded Edition - 1994 - by Amity Pierce Buxton (34 Sample Pages). - Contested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing - 1993 - by Larry Gross.  - Children of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Teens Are Leading a New Way Out of the Closet/With a New Epilogue - 1996 by Andrew Boxer, Gilbert H. Herdt (1993 Edition). - Testimonies: Lesbian and Bisexual Coming-Out Stories - 2002 - edited by Sarah Holmes, Jenn Tust, Jennifer Tust. - Am I Blue? : Coming Out from the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer (10 Sample Pages).

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity - 1990 - by Judith Butler (Review) (Amazon.com Reference) (List of Reviews). - Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender - 1997 - by Riki Anne Wilchins (Review) (9 Sample Pages). - Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality - 2000 - by Anne Fausto-Sterling (33 Sample Pages). - Female Masculinity - 1998 - by Judith Halberstam (19 Sample Pages) (Review: PDF Download). - Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue - 1999 - by Leslie Feinberg (11 Sample Pages). - Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary - 2002 - edited by Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins, Clare Howell. - Transmen and Ftms: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities - 1999 - by Jason Cromwell (20 Sample Pages). - Lessons from the Intersexed - 1998 - by Suzanne J. Kessler (Review).

Books: - Invented Identities? Lesbians and Gays Talk About Migration - 1997 - by Bob Cant (Review) (Amazon.com Reference). - Lesbian and Bisexual Identities: Constructing Communities, Constructing Selves - 1997 - by Kristen G. Esterberg (Review) (Amazon.com Reference). - What is She Like? Lesbian Identities from the 1950s to the 1990s - 1995 - by Rosa Ainley (Review) (Amazon.com Reference). - Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities - 1998 - edited by Dawn Atkins (27 Sample Pages). - Different Rainbows - 2000 - edited by Peter Drucker (7 Sample Pages) (Review: PDF Download). - The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities: Beyond Identification - 2005 - edited by Eleanor Conlin Casella, Chris Fowler.

Books: - Coming Out in College: The Struggle for a Queer Identity - 1994 - by Robert A. Rhoads (Review) (Amazon.com Reference). - "...And Then I Became Gay" Young's Men's Stories - 1997 - by Ritch Savin-Williams (Commentaries) (11 Sample Pages). - The Family Heart: A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out - 1994 - by Robb Forman Dew (Abstract) (24 Sample Pages). - There Must be Fifty Ways to Tell Your Mother: Coming Out Stories - 1996 - by Lynn Sutcliffe (Abstract). - Outing Yourself: How to Come Out as Lesbian or Gay to Your Family, Friends, and Coworkers  - 1996 - by Michelangelo Signorile (32 Sample Pages) - Sexual Identity on the Job: Issues and Services - 1996 - edited by Alan L. Ellis, Ellen D. B. Riggle.

Books: - Contested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing- 1993 - by Larry Gross (Abstract) (Amazon.com Reference). - Epistemology of the Closet - 1990 - by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Review) (Amazon.com Reference).  - The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality and the Movies - 1987 - by Vito Russo (Review) (27 Sample Pages). - The Price of Achievement: Coming Out in Reagan Days - 1995 - by W. Scott Thompson (Review) (Amazon.com Reference). - Step Children of Nature: Krafft-Ebing, Psychiatry, and the Making of Sexual Identity 2000 - by  Harry Oosterhuis (Review) (23 Sample Pages).

Search GLBTQ: The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture. - Search BGLAD. - Search the QRD. - Search all GLBT Resource Directories. - Search Google.com. - Search Google Scholar. - Search Google's G:LBT Directory. - MSN Search. - Search findarticles.com: many full text articles and papers.

Academic Searches: Search IngentaConnect: The most comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications. - Search Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online. - Search JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive. - Search The National Library of Medicine.
 

Full Text Articles / Papers / Studies / Reports (and/or Abstracts):

Altman D (1996). On global queering. Australian Humanities Review, February. Full Text. Response links given to article.

Anthony S, Bryson M, De Castell S (2001). Prospects for Identity Formation for Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual Persons with Developmental Disabilities. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 48(1): 54-65. ERIC Abstract. Full Text.

Armesto JC, Weisman AG (2001). Attributions and Emotional Reactions to the Identity Disclosure ("Coming Out") of a Homosexual Child. Family Process, 40(2): 145-61. Full Text N/A, Find Articles: findarticles.com. Blackwell Abstract. 

Beaty LA (1999). Identity development of homosexual youth and parental and familial influences on the coming out process. Adolescence, 34(135): 597-601. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Beeler J, DiProva V (1999). Family adjustment following disclosure of homosexuality by a member: themes discerned in narrative accounts. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 25(4):443-59. Abstract. Full Text.

Bigler, Mark O (Utah AIDS Foundation, 2000). Generational Differences Among Gay Men In the Coming Out Process, Self-Esteem, and HIV Risk. PDF Download.

Blackburn, Ann (2001). Challenging Homophobia: A Celebrating Diversity guide. PDF Download.

Blumenfeld WJ. Adolescence, Sexual Orientation & Identity: An Overview. Full Text.

Broach RJ  (199-). Does Human Dignity Require Outing Homosexuals? Journal of Social Philosophy (Accepted for Publication). Full Text.

Cambridge P (2004). Is Sexuality Coming Our of the Closet? Tizard Learning Disability Review.  Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Crawford I, Allison KW, Zamboni BD, Soto T (2002).The influence of dual-identity development on the psychosocial functioning of African-American gay and bisexual men. Journal of Sex Research, 39(3):179-89. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Cruise K (2004). Effects of Age of Self-Identification, Age of Disclosure of Sexual Orientation, and Perceived Social Support on Self-Esteem in Gay and Lesbian Youth. Journal of Young Investigators, 10(1). Full Text.

Davidson MM,  Huenefeld N (2002). Struggling with two identities: the case of Eileen. Career Development Quarterly, 50(4), 306-310. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Dowsett, Gary (1994). Working-Class Homosexuality, Gay Commuity, and the Masculine Sexual (Dis)Order. Revue Sexologique, 2(2). Full Text.

Dube EM (2000). The Role of Sexual Behavior in the Identification Process of Gay and Bisexual Males. Journal of Sex Research, 37(2): 123-32. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com. (Journal of Sex Research: Table of Contents)

Drescher J (2001), The Closet: Psychological Issues of Being In and Coming Out. Psychiatric Times, October. Full Text. Full Text.

Dunkle JH (1996). Toward an Integration of Gay and Lesbian Identity Development and Super's Life-Span Approach. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 48(2): 149-159. Full Text N/A: PDF Download).

Elizur Y, Ziv M (2001). Family Support and Acceptance, Gay Male Identity Formation, and Psychological Adjustment: A Path Model. Family Process, 40(2): 125-44. Full Text N/A, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

English, Hugh (2003). Learning and unlearning historical sexual identities. Radical Teacher, Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

FitzGerald WA (2000). Explaining the variety of human sexuality. Medical Hypotheses, 55(5): 435-439. Full Text: PDF Download, PubMed abstract.

Fontaine JH, and Hammond NL (1996). Counselling issues with gay and lesbian adolescents. Adolescence, 31(124), 817-630. Full Text.

Gamson, Joshua (2002). Gay Media, Inc.: Media Structures, the New Gay Conglomerates, and Collective Sexual Identities. Incite Project. Full text.

Garnets LD, Peplau AP (2000). Understanding Women's Sexualities and Sexual Orientations: An Introduction. Journal of Social Issues, 56(2): 181-192. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Green RG (2000). "Lesbians, Gay Men, and Their Parents": A Critique of LaSala and the Prevailing Clinical "Wisdom". Family Process, 39(2). Full Text N/A, Find Articles: findarticles.com. PubMed Abstract. 

Gunther, Scott (2005). Alors, are we 'queer' yet? The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 12(3): 23-25. Full Text.

Gunther, Scott (1995). La Construction De L'identité Homosexuelle Dans Les Lois Aux États-Unis Et En France. DEA Memoire. Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, Ecole Normale Superieure. Full Text. Full Text.

Halperin DM (2006). Gay identity after Foucault. La Manzana, 1(2). Full Text.

Hamilton, Linda (1999). Coming Out IN DANCE: Paths to Understanding. Dance Magazine, 73(2): 72-. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Hostetler AJ, Herdt GH (1998). Culture, sexual lifeways, and developmental subjectivities: rethinking sexual taxonomies. Social Research, 65(2): 249-91. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Jagose A  (1996). Queer Theory. Australian Humanities Review, Issue 4. Full Text.

Killey D (1998). Un-queer anti-theory. Australian Humanities Review, February. Full Text. Response links given to article.

Kim M (2004). Out and About: Coming of Age in a Straight White World. In: Asian American X, Arar Han and John Hsu (Eds). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 139-48.  PDF Download.

Kopelson, Karen (2002). Dis/Integrating the Gay/Queer Binary: “Reconstructed Identity Politics” for a Performative Pedagogy. College English, 65(1): 17-35. PDF Download. (Abstract)

LaSaLa M (2000). Lesbians, Gay Men, and Their Parents: Family Therapy for the Coming-Out Crisis. Family Process, 39(1): 67-81. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com. (See Criticism)

Levitt HM, Gerrish EA, Hiestand KR (2003). The misunderstood gender: a model of modern femme identity. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 48(3/4): 99-113. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Lim YL (1998). Webs of Betrayal, Webs of Blessings.In: Q&A: Queer in Asian America, David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom (Eds.). Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 323-34.  PDF Download.

Lima, Marcus Antônio Assis (2002). Media and memory: building a gay subjectivity. Paper presented in the Gender & Communication Session at 23 Conference and General Assembly IAMCR, Barcelona, Spain, July, 21-26 2002. PDF Download.

Lippa RA (2001). On Deconstructing and Reconstructing Masculinity-Femininity. Journal of Research in Personality, 35(2): 168-207. Full Text N/A: PDF Download, IDEAL Library.

Mohr RD (1995). The perils of postmodernism. The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Fall, 9-13. Full Text.

Morris JF, Balsam KF, Rothblum ED (2002). Lesbian and bisexual mothers and nonmothers: demographics and the coming-out process. Journal of Family Psychology, 16(2): 144-56. PubMed Abstract. PDF Download.

Mubarak D (2001). Why we are gay? (Everybody has an idea: It's genetics--we're born that way. It's our mothers and testosterone in the womb. It's the environment as we were growing up....). The Advocate, July 17. 13 pages. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Muehlenhard CL (2000). Categories and Sexuality.(Review) Journal of Sex Research, 37(2): 142-50. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com. (Journal of Sex Research: Table of Contents)

Ohi, Kevin (1999). "I'm not the boy you want": sexuality, "race," and thwarted revolution in Baldwin's 'Another Country.' African American Review 33(2): 261-81.. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com. (James Baldwin Resources)

Padva G (2004). Edge of Seventeen: Melodramatic Coming-Out in New Queer Adolescence Films. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 1(4): 355–372. PDF Download.

Peplau LA, Garnets LD (2000). A New Paradigm for Understanding Women's Sexuality and Sexual Orientation. Journal of Social Issues,  56(2): 330-350. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Phellas CN (2003). Greek Sexual Culture, Identity and Ethnicity. Paper presented at The 1st Hellenic Observatory PhD Symposium on Modern Greece:  "Current Social Science Research on Greece." PDF Download. Download Page.

Podesva RJ, Roberts AJ, Campbell-Kiblers K (2001). Sharing Resources and Indexing Meanings in the Production of Gay Styles. In: Language and Sexuality: Contesting Meaning in Theory and Practice - 2001 - edited by Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Robert J. Podesva, Sarah J. Roberts and Andrew Wong. PDF Download.

Rasmussen ML (2004). The problem of coming out. Theory Into Practice, 42(2): 144-150. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Rosario M, Schrimshaw EW, Hunter J, Braun L (2006). Sexual identity development among gay, lesbian, and bisexual youths: consistency and change over time. Journal of Sex Research, 43(1):46-58. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Rosario, Vernon A (2002). Science and Sexual Identity: an essay review. Journal of the History of Medicine, 57: 79-85. PDF Download.

Thorogood, Nicki (2000). Mouthrules and the Construction of Sexual Identities. Sexualities, 3(2): 165-82. PDF Download.

Valocchi S (1999). The class-inflected nature of gay identity. Social Problems, 46(2), 207-. Full Text.

Veniegas RC, Conley TD (2000). Biological Research on Women's Sexual Orientations: Evaluating the Scientific Evidence. Journal of Social Issues, 56(2): 267-282 . Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Waller MA, McAllen-Walker R (2001). One Man's Story of Being Gay and Diné (Navajo): A Study in Resiliency. In: Bernstein M & Reimann R (2001). Queer families, queer politics: Challenging culture and the state: 87-103. New York: Columbia University Press. PDF Download. Web Page access for PDF Download.

Ward J, Winstanley D (2003). Coming Out: Recognition and Renegotiation of Identity in Organisations. Critical Management Studies Conference  Paper. PDF Download.

Wilson, Ian (1999). The Emerging Gay Adolescent. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 4(4): 1359–1045. PDF Download N/A.

Wilton, Tamsin (2000). Out/Performing Our Selves: Sex, Gender and Cartesian Dualism. Sexualities, 3(2): 237-254. PDF Download.

Zhongxin S, Farrer J, Choi K (2006). Sexual Identity Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Shanghai.  China Perspectives, 64. March - April.