The current study takes an interactionist perspective in examining individual and situational factors that relate to family and workplace disclosures among invisibly stigmatized minorities. Seventy-nine lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) participants completed questionnaires assessing their individual levels of outness before completing an experiment assessing disclosure decisions as a function of the anticipated support provided by individuals within one’s family and place of work. Results suggest that higher levels of outness and higher levels of anticipated support both lead to increased disclosure behaviors overall. Additionally, a 3-way interaction emerged between individual outness, anticipated support, and context that reflects a situational strength perspective; individual differences in outness had the least impact on disclosure behaviors within situationally strong contexts (family settings with low levels of anticipated support).

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