Psychology of Gay Gen X Growing Up

Psychology of Gay Gen X Growing Up A lot of you figured out something about yourselves way before you had a word for it. This one's about what it was actually like; the house, the school, the friends, the silence; and the psychology of growing up gay in Gen X before the world was ready to talk about it. SOURCES: D'Augelli & Hershberger (1993), Floyd & Stein (2002) — Studies on age of first awareness of same-sex attraction in sexual minority youth https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... PMC — "LGBT Youth and Family Acceptance" — Review of parental acceptance, rejection, and non-disclosure patterns https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... PMC — "Examining Ethnic Differences in Parental Rejection of LGB Youth Sexual Identity" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... APA Monitor — "Understanding Children's Atypical Gender Behavior" — 1970s-80s clinical approaches to gender-variant children https://www.apa.org/monitor/sep03/chi... Gallup — "Fear and Anxiety During the 1980s AIDS Crisis" — Polling data on American attitudes 1985-1987 https://news.gallup.com/vault/259643/... PMC — "Retrospective Recall of Sexual Orientation Identity Development Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Adults" — Generational differences in coming-out age https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... PMC — "Parental Responses to Coming Out Across Three Age Cohorts" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... Frontiers in Psychology — "Sexual Orientation Identity Development Milestones" — Systematic review and meta-analysis https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/... Cornell "What We Know" — Review of 42 studies on family acceptance and LGBT youth well-being https://whatweknow.inequality.cornell...