LGBT People’s Experiences of Stigmatization: A Phenomenologic Study

This study is an in-depth analysis of LGBT people’s experiences stigmatization, phenomenological qualitative study. people were contacted using snowball sampling. Data from 33 participants collected in face-to-face interviews the interview technique and semi-structured questionnaires. Content participants’ stigmatization identified three themes four subthemes: 'being LGBT; otherness', 'pretending: lifein closet', 'self stigmatization':'Feeling like a problem that needs to be solved'. experience intense are subjected violence beeing perceived sick, perver or dangerious. self-stigma. pretended not other live secret life. determined who suffered family society stigmatizationor they internalized this stigma peretended