The Story of Sexual Identity: Narrative Perspectives on the Gay and Lesbian Life Course

The Story of Sexual Identity......Page 2
Foreword On Narrative Pluralism......Page 8
Preface......Page 16
Contents......Page 18
Contributors......Page 22
part i Time, Place, Story Introductory Perspectives on Narrative and the Life Course......Page 24
Narrative Engagement and Stories of Sexual Identity......Page 26
History, Narrative, and Sexual Identity......Page 46
part ii Culture, Identity, Narrative Context and Multiplicity in Sexual Lives......Page 72
Stories from the Second World......Page 74
Unity and Purpose at the Intersections of Racial/Ethnic and Sexual Identities......Page 102
Bisexuality in a House of Mirrors......Page 130
Narrative Identity Construction of Black Youth for Social Change......Page 154
part iii Identities in Process Stories of Risk and Relationships......Page 178
Between Kansas and Oz......Page 180
(My) Stories of Lesbian Friendship......Page 200
Emergence of a Poz Sexual Culture......Page 230
Connectedness, Communication, and Reciprocity in Lesbian Relationships......Page 246
Postcards from the Edge......Page 274
part iv Making Gay and Lesbian Identities......Page 296
In the Beginning......Page 298
The Role of the Internet in the Sexual Identity Development of Gay and Bisexual Male Adolescents......Page 320
Focus on the Family......Page 350
Midlife Lesbian Lifeworlds......Page 370
The Good (Gay) Life......Page 398
Generativity and Time in Gay Men s Life Stories......Page 420
From Same-Sex Desire to Homosexual Identity......Page 448
part v Concluding Perspectives......Page 474
Lives, Times, and Narrative Engagement......Page 476
Index......Page 490