Women's close friendships across sexual orientation: A comparative analysis of lesbian-heterosexual and bisexual-heterosexual women's friendships

Sex Roles

Volumn 56, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 473-482

  Galupo, M Paz ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross race friendship; Friendship; Sexual orientation; Women's friendship

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147161182     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-007-9186-4     Document Type: Article

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