![]() Unfortunately, much of the extant research on LGB adolescent developmental factors has had a primary focus on traumatic life experiences such as victimization, harassment, and rejection, and the subsequent negative impact of such events on mental and physical health outcomes (c.f., Bontempo & D’Augelli, 2002 D’Augelli, 2002 2006 D’Augelli & Hershberger, 1993 Garofalo, & Harper, 2003 Pilkington & D’Augelli, 1995 Ryan, Huebner, Diaz & Sanchez, 2009 Savin-Williams & Cohen, 1996 Telljohan & Price, 1993). Thus, this article takes a resilience-based approach to examining sexual orientation identity among gay/bisexual male adolescents by sharing their perceptions regarding the positive aspects of being gay/bisexual.Īlthough the documentation and examination of various challenges faced by LGB adolescents is critical in helping researchers and practitioners to improve the life circumstances of LGB youth through different types of intervention, it is important to also highlight the strength and resiliency demonstrated by many LGB adolescents. ![]() ![]() United States (U.S.) society strives to maintain a hetero-normative order in which anything other than heterosexuality is stigmatized ( Grossman, 2001 Herek, Chopp & Strohl, 2007 Rivers & D’Augelli, 2001). When individuals or groups do not conform to socially assigned roles that fit this order, they may be oppressed and marginalized by some in the heterosexual majority and become vulnerable to discrimination as well as other culturally and socially produced damaging forces ( Savin-Williams, 2001 Stall, Freidman & Catania, 2008). In Mays and Cochran’s (2001) study on perceived discrimination among LGB adults in the U.S., gay and bisexual individuals reported higher frequencies of day-to-day and lifetime discrimination experiences as compared to their heterosexual counterparts. The primary reported basis for the discrimination was sexual orientation for some participants, and those who reported these incidents argued that they interfered with leading a “full and productive life” and made life generally more difficult ( Mays & Cochran, 2001).
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