“Having to think about it all the time”: factors affecting the identity management strategies of residential summer camp staff who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender

An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three‐lens typology

“…A common theme within coming out critiques is their challenging of binaries linked to coming out: (1) that one is either out or not or, in reference to the closet metaphor, either in or out, (2) based on one being either heterosexual or homosexual, identity categories that depend on the gender binary of male and female. The first binary is challenged through considering LGBTQ+ identities and coming out to be a form of management: For example, an ‘identity management’ (e.g., Docena, 2013; Griffin, 1991; Miller, 2011; Mollet, 2021; Oakleaf, 2013; Orne, 2011; Owens, 2017; Thomas‐Durrell, 2020; Whitman et al., 2000), ‘privacy management’ (e.g., Helens‐Hart, 2017; Mckenna‐Buchanan et al., 2015; Pecoraro, 2020; Schrimshaw et al., 2014), or ‘visibility management’ (e.g., Dewaele et al., 2013; Papadaki & Giannou, 2021). A management perspective challenges linear stage models that consider LGBTQ+ identities a development from a split into a full and stable self (Klein et al., 2015).…”

“Are You Trying to Make Them Gay?”: Culture Wars, Anxieties about Genderplay, and the Subsequent Impacts on Youth

“…Existing research in the leisure field has identified challenges for Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (2SLGBTQI) people in accessing community recreation, which often results in these individuals working to conceal or tone down their gender and sexual identities in these spaces (Kivel & Kleiber, 2000;Litwiller, 2018;Oakleaf, 2010;Oakleaf & Richmond, 2017). For example, some researchers have found that public leisure spaces, such as coffee shops, are complex sites of constant negotiation that require diligent monitoring of physical and emotional safety.…”