Parenting Desires and Sexual Identities

CONTACT AND PARENTING INTENTIONS AND DESIRES 1 Differences in parenting intentions and desires as a function of sexual orientation: The role of contact with similar others

1 Differences in parenting intentions and desires as a function of sexual orientation: The role of contact with similar others Synopsis Objective. Parenthood is one of humanity's most ubiquitous and valued roles, but lesbian and gay individuals are much less likely than heterosexual peers to become parents or to report the desire to become parents. Further, gay men who report the desire to beco...

Conflicting Desires and Unstable Identities: Tensions in the Greek Symposium

Race/ethnicity and sexual orientation: intersecting identities.

Racial/ethnic minority women who come to identify as lesbian must confront the norms and expectations of both the majority and minority cultures in which they live. This article reports findings from a diverse sample of nearly 450 women and examines the effects of race/ethnicity on sexual identity development in African American, Latina, and White lesbians. African American and Latina responden...

Gender, racial, ethnic, sexual, and class identities.

Identity is the individual's psychological relationship to particular social category systems. This chapter summarizes how people create and negotiate their gender, racial, ethnic, sexual, and class identities. Theories, methods, and priorities in each of these content areas differ. However, each systematically excludes particular research participants and thus ignores the complexity of people'...

"Uncontrolled desires": the response to the sexual psychopath, 1920-1960.

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