Normal Queers: Straight Parents Respond to Their Children's “Coming Out”

By J. Fields. 2001

140 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/104488e746c731c7c8d36934c3856549850ac641

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In Gender Studies

1. N. Solebello
2. Kristin S. Scherrer
3. Sinikka Elliott

In Social Psychology

1. N. Solebello
2. Kristin S. Scherrer
3. Sinikka Elliott
4. Rachel M. Schmitz

Citations in the corpus

• Getting “Bi” in the Family: Bisexual People's Disclosure Experiences (2015, background): “When someone comes out as gay or lesbian, family members draw on existing cultural representations of those identities to interpret and respond to that disclosure (Fields, 2001; Scherrer, 2014; Seidman, 2002).”
• “We Want Them to Be as Heterosexual as Possible” (2011, background): “In her study of heterosexual parents of gay children, Fields (2001) finds that parents often blame themselves for their children’s homosexuality.”