A Developmental Model of the Sexual Minority Closet: Structural Sensitization, Psychological Adaptations, and Post-closet Growth.
Across the lifespan, most sexual minority individuals experience the closet—a typically prolonged period in which no significant others know their sexual identity. This paper positions the closet as distinct from stigma concealment given its typical duration in years and absolute removal from source...
| Publicado en: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 52; no. 5; pp. 1869 - 1896 |
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Springer Nature
Jul2023
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