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LGBT persons face multiple challenges when entering the coming out process, regardless of their age or place in society. Coming Out and Disclosures: LGBT Persons Across the Life Span is a comprehensive guide to the coming out process for LGBT individuals, how to prepare for disclosure, and how disclosure is received in various groups. The book examines sexual orientation and identities; developmental models of coming out; disclosure in adolescence, midlife, or later; coming out to parents and family members; and disclosure outside the family. The book also provides practitioners with guidelines for working with clients who want to make disclosures.

Coming Out and Disclosures: LGBT Persons Across the Life Span brings together into a single source the latest research and current thought on the experiences of LGBT persons in a heterosexist society. This resource, which is also useful as a supplemental textbook, can be used as a guide to practice for professionals and can be used for in-service training and workshops. This invaluable book has an extensive bibliography.

Topics in Coming Out and Disclosures: LGBT Persons Across the Life Span include the meaning of sexual identity across various populations, an overview of coming out in the heterosexist world, detailed analysis of the coming out process, examination of the coming out process at different ages, an overview of disclosures in the heterosexist world, detailed analysis of disclosures to parents and family members across various cultures, suggested interventions based on coming out models, special issues experienced in coming out, strategies to facilitate disclosures, and more.

Coming Out and Disclosures: LGBT Persons Across the Life Span is an essential guide for any LGBT individual preparing to enter the coming out process, and practitioners in the helping professions, such as social work, counseling, and mental health.

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Coming Out and Disclosures

LGBT Persons Across the Life Span

THE HAWORTH PRESS

Titles of Related Interest

Acts of Disclosure: The Coming-Out Process of Contemporary Gay Men by Marc E. Vargo

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Coming Out and Disclosures

LGBT Persons Across the Life Span

Ski Hunter, PhD

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Cover design by Jennifer M. Gaska.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hunter, Ski.

Coming out and disclosures: LGBT persons across the life span / Ski Hunter.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN: 978-0-7890-2689-7 (hard : alk. paper)

ISBN: 978-0-7890-2690-3 (soft : alk. paper)

1. Coming out (Sexual orientation)United States. 2. Social work with sexual minoritiesUnited States. I. Title.

HQ73.3.U6H86 2007
306.760973dc22

2006038188

This book is dedicated to Andrea who is central to my life.
She supported me throughout the writing of this book.
Writing is a solitary process, and I deeply appreciate
that she was present and helpful in so many ways.

About the Author

Ski Hunter, PhD, MSW, is a professor at the School of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington. Among the courses she teaches is a course on LGBT issues. She has presented numerous workshops on this topic. Dr. Hunter has authored two books on midlife, including Midlife and Older LGBT Adults: Knowledge and Affirmative Practice for the Social Services. She was also the lead author of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youths and Adults published in 1998, co-author of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Social Work published in 2001, and lead author of Affirmative Practice: Understanding and Working with Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

I express gratitude to all LGBT persons who helped pave the way for many others to come out and make disclosures.

Introduction

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual are terms applied to sexual identities and infer sexual orientations. Transgender and intersex are terms applied to identities only and do not infer sexual orientations. Yet, LGBTI persons have to contend with stigma, prejudice, discrimination, harassment, and violence. LGBT persons also want legal protections and civil rights as well as sexual freedom and freedom for sex-gender expression. A major goal for intersex persons is freedom from surgical decisions about gender soon after birth, as they could turn out to be the wrong decisions. All these persons also have in common coming out to themselves and disclosing information to others about their identities. Literature on these processes, however, is mostly focused on lesbian and gay persons.

The study of lesbian and gay persons increased during the past thirty years or so (Herdt, 1997; Hostetler & Herdt, 1998), and much of it addressed coming out and making disclosures. Typically coming out happens during adolescence and disclosures in late adolescence or early adulthood. Hence, much of the literature focuses on the coming-out experiences of youths and disclosures particularly to parents. Less study has been devoted to these topics across the middle and later years of adulthood (Cohler & Boxer, 1984).

Much of the material on Coming Out and Disclosures: LGBT Persons Across the Life Span was published in the 1970s and 1980s in a mixture of trade books and academic books and journals. Examples of the books include those that provide personal stories of coming out (e.g., Stanley & Wolfe, 1980) and coming out during adolescence and making disclosures to parents (e.g., Herdt & Boxer, 1993; Sauerman, 1984; Savin-Williams, 1990a; 2001). Other books focus on a variety of contexts where disclosures might occur such as college, work, and church (e.g., Burke, 1993). More books are available on the experiences of men (e.g., Outland, 2000; Vargo, 1998) than those of women (e.g., K.L. Jensen, 1999).

The remainder of this introduction addresses terminology in more detail and the context of heterosexism in which coming out and disclosures take place. The movement of human services from being oppressive and heterosexist to being more affirmative is also addressed. Many lesbian and gay persons use these services because of the stress involved in coming out and making disclosures, as well as other issues.

Terms

Initials such as LGB and LGBT are used in this book. Sometimes the plural LGBT populations or communities are used to indicate the diversity among these groups and within them (L.M. Woolf, 2002). Terms also vary over time and in different geographical areas, cultures, regions, and because of age or philosophies (American Psychological Association, 1991; Donovan, 1992; Martinez, 1998). The terms, lesbian and gay, began to appear after the rebellion that was instigated in 1969 by LGBT patrons at the Stonewall Bar in Greenwich Village, New York. They fought police who routinely raided the bar and harassed and arrested the patrons (Cohler, Galatzer-Levy, Boxer, & Irvin, 2000). After this event, or turning point in lesbian and gay history in the United States, the term homosexual was dismissed because of its association with negative stereotypes as well as its use as a pathological diagnosis (M.A. Jacobs & Brown, 1997). This sin or sickness identification was replaced with a social status identification (gay) (Herdt & Boxer, 1992). Eventually, women chose the term lesbian for themselves as gay was a term mostly used for men (Jeffreys, 1994; T.S. Stein, 1993).

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