Non-Heterosexual Clues: Investigating One’s Sexuality in Biographical Narratives

The article is devoted to how non-heterosexual people look for perceived signs of their sexual otherness in the past and present them biographical narratives. This search clues like an investigation: informants select events details from childhood adolescence that are assumed be related current identity. These include, among other things, recollections sexualized games, child gender otherness, interest or indifference topic sexuality. In interviews written autobiographies, author considers rhetorical strategies self-description people. evidence paradigm K. Ginzburg used as a conceptualization tool, but, this case, participants clues, not researcher. methodological basis work approach narrative analysis. With help found past, simultaneously confirm sustainability sexuality connect elements biography into orderly story. A coherent allows normalize non-heterosexuality by offering explanation background it. At same time, it built on opposition heterosexual norm.