1st Edition
Forever Coming Out The ‘Safety Dance’ of LGBTQIA+ Disclosure
Acknowledgments viii
Preface ix
1 The myth of being out 1
2 Disclosure and exposure in context 19
3 Context matters: societal forces impacting
LGBTQIA+ experience 43
4 Social and individual-level forces impacting
LGBTQIA+ experience 67
5 Safe spaces, hostile spaces: “Gay-ging” for safety 91
6 The price of negotiation: cumulative exposure risk 114
7 Conclusion: the safety dance 136
Index 154
Biography
Maureen C. Outlaw is Associate Professor of Sociology at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, the USA. She earned her Ph.D. in Crime, Law, and Justice from The Pennsylvania State University in 2001. Her scholarly interests lie at the intersections of social context, gender/ sexuality, and victimization and harm. She has published work on intimate partner violence both within and outside the LGBTQIA+ community and is particularly interested in the ways in which contextual factors impact the experiences of stigma and marginalization in everyday life.
