Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Among Lesbians and Gay Men / Edition 1

by Beverly A. Greene

Overview

A broad range of culture-related topics specific to the lesbian and gay community are explored in this volume. Along with empirical, clinical and theoretical discussions, personal narrative offers poignant insight into additional complexities, pressures and losses that lesbians and gay men must cope with in a world that often handles diversity with bigotry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803953635
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/09/1997
Series:	Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian & Gay Issues , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.78(d)

Table of Contents

Frontnote - James Baldwin
Native Gay and Lesbian Issues - Terry Tafoya
The Two Spirited
A National Survey of the Intimate Relationships of African-American Lesbians and Gay Men - Letitia Anne Peplau, Susan D Cochran and Vickie M Mays
A Look at Commitment, Satisfaction, Sexual Behavior and HIV Disease
Leaving the Confederate Closet - Bonnie Ruth Strickland
Female, Lesbian and Jewish - Sari H Dworkin
Complex and Invisible
From Apartheid to Mandela's Constitution - Cheryl Potgieter
Black South African Lesbians in the Nineties
Symbol of Privilege, Object of Derision - Armand R Cerbone
Dissonance and Contradictions
Exploring the Lives of Older African-American Gay Men - Clarence Lancelot Adams Jr and Douglas C Kimmel
Greek American Lesbians - Leah M Fygetakis
Identity Odysseys of Honorable Good Girls
Crossing Borders and Boundaries - Oliva M Espin
The Life Narratives of Immigrant Lesbians
Ethnic Minority Lesbians and Gay Men - Beverly Greene
Mental Health and Treatment Issues
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Know - Connie S Chan
The Formation of a Homosexual Identity and Sexual Expression among Asian-American Lesbians
The Relationships among Self-Esteem, Acculturation and Lesbian Identity Formation in Latina Lesbians - Marta A Alquijay
Sexual Identity and the Discontents of Difference - Carla M Trujillo
Cultural Diversity and the Coming-Out Process - Althea Smith
Implications for Clinical Practice
Endnote - Audre Lorde