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Today’s society is rapidly changing in how issues dealing with the rights and treatment of homosexuals. Among the changes are the ways heterosexual or straight parents relate to their homosexual or sexual minority children. Once a parent knows definitively that her or his child …

Black gay males face a multitude of challenges in making their decision to self-disclose their sexual identity. This study's purpose was to gain knowledge about the coming out experience of Black gay males who were reared in the Black Fundamentalist Church. The guiding research …

Current studies on sexual fluidity and non-exclusive sexual attractions are misleading as they leave the reader to assume all people have the same experiences. Studies on non-exclusive sexual attractions and identities, such as sexual fluidity, bisexuality, pansexuality, and mos…

The purpose of this dissertation research was to investigate the experience of African American gay men who openly acknowledged their sexual orientation (commonly referred to as coming out) in a community that did not accept their gay identity or condone their behavior. Research…