Stanovlennia homoseksualnoi identychnosti i formuvannia stiny vidchuzhennia mizh doroslymy dit’my ta yikhnimy bat’kamy

• Authors: Alek D. Epstein

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FORMATION OF HOMOSEXUAL IDENTITY AND FORMATION OF THE ESTRANGEMENT WALL BETWEEN ADULT CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS

• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

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The paper is based on the analysis of 60 formalized interviews with participants of the course From Sex to Gender, from Gender to Quire conducted by the author in the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in May, 2011. One third of the questioned had the experience of heterosexual relations, the other one third had predominately homosexual relations, though 80% of them had the experience of heterosexual relations as well. The research is focused on the problem of confidential relations formed between hetero- and homosexuals and their nearest and dearest. It follows from the data obtained that parents and other members of the family are not the nearest confidents either for hetero- or for homosexuals. But while the former in the course of time go through the process of “reunification” with parents and confide to them (minimum to mother), the latter do not: most homo- and bisexuals do not make coming out before their parents, hence the latter have a rather approximate idea about life of their children, things important for them and what are they anxious about. In other words the process of estrangement of young men-homosexuals and girls-lesbians from their parents, which is normal in juvenile age, is not temporary, but at least long-term one.

Keywords

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MATURING; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; INTERGENERATION RELATIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HOMOPHOBIA

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; http://www.i-soc.kiev.ua
• Journal: Sotsiolohiia: teoriia, metody, marketyng (Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing)
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 187-197

Contributors

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Alek D. Epstein