Journal of HomosexualityPub Date : 2025-01-28Epub Date: 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2024.2320241
Paul Martins, Catherine Potard, Bénédicte Gohier, Baptiste Lignier
{"title":"Definitions and Measurement Tools for Assessing Parental Reactions to LGB People Coming Out: A Critical Review.","authors":"Paul Martins, Catherine Potard, Bénédicte Gohier, Baptiste Lignier","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2320241","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2320241","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parental responses to young people's coming out as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) are a crucial experience in identity formation and subsequent mental health outcomes. However, how parents react to coming out varies and remains relatively imprecise in the literature. The aim of the present critical review was to explore and discuss the different definitions and measurement tools used in studies assessing perceived parental reactions to the coming out of LGB people aged 18 years and over. Following PRISMA guidelines, a review of 14 selected articles was carried out to examine the different tools used. Then, based on this selection of articles, a review of the different proposed definitions of parental reactions was carried out. Analysis revealed that the Perceived Parental Reactions Scale emerged as the most widely used and most appropriate international scale for capturing the diversity of perceived parental reactions. Then, parental responses were often addressed in a dichotomous manner, focusing primarily on acceptance or rejection. Future studies will need to consider a more nuanced approach to understanding parental reactions to coming out.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"297-318"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139913772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of HomosexualityPub Date : 2025-01-28Epub Date: 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2024.2319615
Joel R Anderson, Timothy W Jones, Jennifer Power, Tiffany M Jones, Nathan Despott, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Percy Gurtler
{"title":"Mental Health Practitioners' Knowledge of LGBTQA+ Conversion Practices and Their Perceptions of Impacts on Survivors.","authors":"Joel R Anderson, Timothy W Jones, Jennifer Power, Tiffany M Jones, Nathan Despott, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Percy Gurtler","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2319615","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2319615","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aims of this study were to identify Australian mental health practitioners' knowledge of what LGBTQA+ conversion practices are and their perceptions of impacts on survivors. We interviewed 18 mental health workers from a range of clinical modalities who were practicing in Australia. We used reflexive thematic analytic techniques to identify themes that characterized Australian mental health practitioners' knowledge of LGBTQA+ conversion practices and perceptions of the impacts of such practices on survivors. Practitioners' understandings of what constitutes LGBTQA+ conversion practices were varied and derived from a range of sources, and practitioners' perceptions of the impacts that conversion practices had on survivors ranged from undeveloped to nuanced. Generalist and specialist practitioners provided vastly different responses. We identified the following four themes: (1) inexperienced practitioners' understandings were limited and reliant on stereotypes about conversion practices; (2) specialist practitioners' understandings were refined and match experiences reported by survivors; (3) generalist practitioners emphasized specific and undeveloped negative impacts; (4) specialist practitioners were aware of deeper harms and the need for sustained support. These themes may be translated into strategies to facilitate improved services offered by practitioners, which may assist survivors in managing and coping with the trauma associated with exposure to these practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"213-227"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139913773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of HomosexualityPub Date : 2025-01-28Epub Date: 2024-03-08DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2024.2320237
Subash Thapa, Tadese Tewogbola Ogunleye, Roman Shrestha, Ranjila Joshi, Karin Hannes
{"title":"Increased Stigma, and Physical and Sexual Violence Against Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis Analyzing Social and Structural Barriers to HIV Testing and Coping Behaviors.","authors":"Subash Thapa, Tadese Tewogbola Ogunleye, Roman Shrestha, Ranjila Joshi, Karin Hannes","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2320237","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2320237","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In sub-Saharan Africa, accessing HIV testing services is a significant challenge for men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW). In this qualitative evidence synthesis, our aim is to understand social and structural barriers and how they hinder MSM's and TGW's access to HIV testing services in sub-Saharan African countries. We searched four selective databases (PubMed, Web of Science and CINAHL complemented with Google Scholar) for qualitative studies, published in English between January 2005 and December 2023, generated 1507 articles, of which 22 were included. Thematic synthesis was conducted for data synthesis. This led to five barriers that hinder HIV test uptake among MSM and TGW, which included: non-availability of tailored HIV testing services, stigma, lack of trust among service providers, sexual and physical violence, and criminalization of same sex relationship. To navigate these social and structural barriers and cope with fears of discrimination and criminalization, MSM and TGW engaged into riskier behaviors, including avoiding HIV testing, non-disclosure, or relying on informal or alternative sources of HIV testing. Decriminalization of same-sex relationship and peer-led HIV testing services were noted to address structural barriers, including stigma and poor access, and subsequently increase the participation in HIV testing services.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"245-271"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140060807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of HomosexualityPub Date : 2025-01-28Epub Date: 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2024.2319621
Junye Ma, Dafna Paltin, Michael Miller-Perusse, Ashley Black, Jason V Baker, Keith J Horvath
{"title":"Sexual Racism on Geosocial Networking Applications and Identity Outness Among Sexual Minority Men in the US.","authors":"Junye Ma, Dafna Paltin, Michael Miller-Perusse, Ashley Black, Jason V Baker, Keith J Horvath","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2319621","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2319621","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the use of <i>geosocial networking</i> (GSN) applications for relationship seeking is prevalent among <i>sexual minority men</i> (SMM), SMM of color may be vulnerable to sexual racism online. Little is known about how sexual racism relates to SMM of color's identity outness, which is integral to the minority stress model and the focus of this study. Eighty SMM, recruited through social media (53.7% racial/ethnic minority), reported their experiences of race-based discrimination on GSN apps and identity outness. Chi-squared and Fisher's tests examined differences in race-based discrimination online by participants' race/ethnicity. A factorial MANOVA was performed on outness to family, peers, and healthcare providers. Nearly one-third of participants experienced race-based discrimination online. Higher percentages of SMM of color experienced race-based discrimination than White SMM. SMM who experienced race-based discrimination online reported lower outness to family than those who had not. Post-hoc analyses revealed that Asian SMM reported consistently lower outness than other groups. Our findings resonated with the mediation framework of minority stress, suggesting that sexual racism online may be a distal stressor that contributes to the group-specific process of identity outness. This also illustrated the importance of addressing sexual racism on GSN apps to buffer existing stress with outness among SMM of color.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"228-244"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11333733/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139913774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of HomosexualityPub Date : 2025-01-28Epub Date: 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2024.2314031
Minsoo Jung
{"title":"Physical Distancing for Gay Men from People Living with HIV During the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Minsoo Jung","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2314031","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2314031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The fear of COVID-19 can exacerbate social stigma and prejudice against individuals living with HIV (PLWH). This research delved into the behaviors of MSM (men who have sex with men) who practice physical-distancing from PLWH. Data from 878 respondents were collected through a web survey conducted on Korea's largest LGBT portal site over one month in July 2022. The study examined various independent variables encompassing socioeconomic characteristics, health status, media consumption habits, and homosexual attributes of MSM. The dependent variable assessed was the extent of physical-distancing perceived by MSMs without HIV toward PLWH. The statistical analysis employed nested regression models. In Model I, it was observed that physical-distancing from PLWH decreased as the age and education level of the respondent increased. In Model II, a decrease in physical-distancing was noted among respondents with underlying health conditions. Model III indicated that increased use of traditional media corresponded to greater physical-distancing from PLWH. Lastly, Model IV revealed a reduction in physical-distancing when the respondent was themselves a person living with HIV. This study underscores the existence of physical-distancing toward PLWH within the gay community. Consequently, fostering solidarity and providing support becomes imperative to prevent the isolation of PLWH within this community.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"194-212"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139693262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of HomosexualityPub Date : 2025-01-28Epub Date: 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2024.2320246
Rieka von der Warth, Lukas M Horstmeier, Mirjam Körner, Erik Farin-Glattacker
{"title":"Health Communication Preferences of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individuals - Development and First Psychometric Evaluation of the CommTrans Questionnaire.","authors":"Rieka von der Warth, Lukas M Horstmeier, Mirjam Körner, Erik Farin-Glattacker","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2320246","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2320246","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patient-doctor communication is an important component of patient-centered care and should be adapted to the target group. Adapting communication to transgender and gender-diverse individuals is particularly difficult, as little is known about the preferences of this group. Thus, the aim of the study was to develop a questionnaire to assess the communication preferences of the target group. Based on a qualitative study, an item pool was created, which was tested in a survey in September 2022. An item analysis was conducted and items with unacceptable characteristics were removed. The remaining item pool was examined with an explorative factor analysis. The sample consisted of <i>N</i> = 264 individuals. Of the initial k = 43 items, k = 9 items remained in the final factor analysis. The final two factor solution explained 60.7% of the variance. The factors describe the emotional resonance in communication (Cronbach's α = .74; e.g. \"My medical doctors should be happy for me when my treatment progresses positively.\") as well as gender-related communication (Cronbach's α = .85; e.g. \"My medical doctors should introduce themselves with pronouns.\"). Overall, the questionnaire captures the communication preferences of transgender and gender-diverse individuals in medical conversations. It covers two important topics for the target group, but further validation is necessary.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"346-361"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139991511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of HomosexualityPub Date : 2025-01-28Epub Date: 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2024.2314030
Tyler Schafer, Phillip W Schnarrs, Aleta Baldwin
{"title":"Two Gender Medicine: Provider-Side Barriers to Caring for Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients.","authors":"Tyler Schafer, Phillip W Schnarrs, Aleta Baldwin","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2314030","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2314030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Experienced and anticipated discrimination during health care visits result in lower health care utilization rates, which contribute to persistent health disparities between transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals and the general population. Most strategies for improving health care delivery to TGD patients place the responsibility on providers, overlooking the role of medical systems and institutions in creating the environments where negative health care experiences occur. Relying on the inhabited institutionalism framework, this study explores system- and institutional-level barriers to the provision of quality care to TGD patients identified by health care providers and administrators, including relevant contextual details of, and interactions between, these barriers. Based on interview data from health care providers and administrators from a variety of practices across Texas, we identified two overarching themes and six subthemes. We demonstrate how our interviewees' responses reveal an institutional logic of \"two-gender medicine,\" which creates barriers to health care provision in both formal medical education and training and throughout the managed care model of practice. We also illustrate how health care workers find ways to resist this logic in the course of their practice. Addressing these barriers to delivering competent and compassionate care to TGD patients that providers encounter could make long overdue strides toward addressing health disparities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"171-193"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139693265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of HomosexualityPub Date : 2025-01-28Epub Date: 2024-02-23DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2024.2320240
Rachelle Millers, Clifford Lewis
{"title":"To Show or Not to Show: Factors within the School Environment That Influence the Expression of LGBTQ Identities.","authors":"Rachelle Millers, Clifford Lewis","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2320240","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2320240","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prejudice against LGBTQ people during their schooling years can be detrimental due to its long-term consequences. This includes the development of beliefs that the world is unsafe, which can perpetuate mental health struggles later in life. Fostering a school environment where LGBTQ people can express their identity can contribute to greater well-being. This qualitative study drew on interviews with 13 school graduates to examine the environmental factors within Australian schools that influenced LGBTQ students' expression of their identity. Drawing on Altman's conceptualization of oppression and liberation, this study found students typically experienced liberation in the form of acceptance and validation within their micro-environment at school. This micro-environment was composed of those close to the student, such as friends, allies, teachers, and other LGBTQ students who provided acceptance and validation, which enabled the student to express their identity regardless of oppression within the broader school environment. Oppression on the other hand originated from the invisibility of LGBTQ identities; the limited representation in curriculum and access to LGBTQ-specific resources and supports; concerns around gendered, gender-neutral, and safe spaces; and limited support from teachers. Based on the findings, implications are drawn to enhance both the micro and macro environment for LGBTQ school students.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"272-296"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139941034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
José Antonio España-Delgado, John Jairo Viáfara-González
{"title":"The Affinity Battlefield: School Relationships and EFL Teachers' Workplace Experiences with LGBTIQ+ Individuals.","authors":"José Antonio España-Delgado, John Jairo Viáfara-González","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2442647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2024.2442647","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Colombia, LGBTIQ+ identities in the educational field are often considered sensitive and perceived as taboo, which may contribute to their underrepresentation in research. In the English as a foreign language (EFL) field, limited attention has been given to the perspectives and experiences of LGBTIQ+ teachers in schools. As a result, the perceptions and realities faced by this group of stakeholders have been overlooked, creating a gap in research. The current research study aimed to describe the perceptions and experiences of a group of heterosexual and LGBTIQ+ EFL teachers about the interactional dynamics established within the workplace regarding the acceptance of sexual and gender diversity. Through a phenomenological design and the implementation of a demographic questionnaire, narratives, in-depth interviews, and focus groups, the data from eleven participants was collected. The participants' stories from different regions in Colombia unveiled that the workplace is perceived as a place where sexual and gender diversity are confronted or supported on the basis of personal and institutional religious affiliation, the nature of the educational institution (public or private), stakeholders' worldviews, parents' influence within the institution, and other factors that configure the participants' experiences within their workplaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of HomosexualityPub Date : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2024-01-16DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2024.2304053
Daniel Cancela, Sarah E Stutterheim, Sjir Uitdewilligen
{"title":"The Workplace Experiences of Transgender and Gender Diverse Employees: A Systematic Literature Review Using the Minority Stress Model.","authors":"Daniel Cancela, Sarah E Stutterheim, Sjir Uitdewilligen","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2304053","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00918369.2024.2304053","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) employees encounter unique challenges in the workplace that are not shared with the rest of the working population. In this study, we conducted a systematic review of 58 empirical studies on the workplace experiences of TGD individuals published in peer-reviewed journals between 2000 and 2022. Using the Minority Stress Model as a theoretical framework, we classified the literature based on (a) the challenges that TGD employees face when navigating their gender identity at work, (b) the outcomes of minority stress processes, and (c) the mechanisms to ameliorate the impact of minority stressors. Findings suggest that TGD employees are exposed to various distal and proximal stress processes that negatively impact work outcomes and mental health, including discrimination or expectations of rejection. A key protective factor both at the organizational and interpersonal level is support, including inclusive policy development and coworker support. At the intrapersonal level, adaptive coping strategies and an integrated minority identity can countervail the impact of minority stressors. Future research should further examine intrapersonal variables while leveraging broader intersectional and international samples. Practitioners are advised to proactively and continuously review their nondiscrimination policies and practices to promote employee wellbeing and positive work outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"60-88"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139472902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}