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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"coming out"”.
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Queering the coming out narrative
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Coming Out: One Family's Story
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 …
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Cross-generational posttraumatic growth after coming out
… the Stress-Related Growth Scale (SRGS), Coming Out Growth Scale (COGS), and Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI). A series of multivariate analyses of covariance (MANCOVAs) were conducted to assess group differences across each measure while controlling for level of outness. Results …
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Coming Out of Childhood: Adolescents and Art Therapy
… to find themselves, to establish convictions about their identity.</p> <p>Their task is to bring together all the various and sometimes conflicting facets of self into a united whole that provides continuity with the past, and focus and direction for the future. This integration is made more …
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Coming out of hibernation : the Canadian public trust doctrine
This thesis appears to be the first academic recognition of the public trust doctrine at Canadian common law. Surprisingly, despite the explosion of the doctrine in the United States, there has been little consideration of the doctrine by Canadian courts and only one Canadian article on the …
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Exploring the Coming Out Experience Through Animal Self-portraiture
… self-portrait with individuals navigating the coming out process. For lesbian, gay. bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, coming out may not only be a significant event, but a life long process affecting many aspects of their lives. The student researcher met LGBQ individuals (N …
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East Asian LGBTQ Individuals’ Coming Out Experiences to Parents
… cultural values and their LGBTQ identities. Coming out to one’s parents is experienced as a particularly stressful event for Asian LGBTQ individuals, who often feel pressured to conceal their sexual and gender identities within their ethnic communities. Further, in East Asian societies …
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PERCEIVED LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG GAY MALES: THE COMING-OUT PROCESS
… 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 …
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The Experience of Coming Out for Lesbians Sexually Abused in Childhood
… 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 …
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"by the way i'm gay": a rhetorical analysis of celebrity coming out
Coming out, and the metaphor of the closet, is the principle organizing mechanism in the construction of LGBTQ public identity, as well as a rite of passage for LGBTQ identified individuals. With the host of recent celebrities going public with their sexuality, while simultaneously disavowing the …
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A phenomenological study of the coming out experiences of gay and lesbian Hmong.
… and external processes involved with the coming out experiences of gay and lesbian Hmong. The aims of this study were to provide space for Hmong lesbians and gay men to tell their stories, to provide gay and lesbian Hmong examples of coming out, and to provide clinicians with an …
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The curriculum of coming out: queer pedagogies, literacies, and rhetorics in LGBTQ lives
… defined as the ways in which we learn to talk about and understand sexuality, in extra-curricular sites of rhetorical education, or what I call the “queer extracurriculum.” My dissertation traces the intricate connections between the processes, materials, and sites by which LGBTQ people develop …
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Choices of non-normativity: On coming out as LGBTQA+ within higher education settings
… interviews, this qualitative study explores the coming and being out experiences of LGBTQA+ identifying Cambridge students and staff members with a view to designing and delivering better inclusivity policies. The aims of the study are to (1) make various lived experiences heard (data description …
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Coming In and Coming Out: Navigating the Spaces between Cultural and Sexual Identity
… 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 …
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Transgender YouTubers and the Power of Coming Out: Existentialism, Gender Performance, and Self-Actualization
… people to seek community and visibility, with YouTube acting as an especially valuable visual repository of self-representation. The present research is concerned with examining how transgender YouTube creators use the platform for self-actualization through the lens of existentialist and gender …
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“It Totally Sucked the Happy out of the Gay”: Coming Out in Rural Newfoundland
The coming out process for lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals has been found to significantly impact psychological well-being. Past research suggests that self-disclosing one’s sexual orientation is a major developmental milestone for sexual minorities that can be hindered by the coming …
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