Queer youth experiences with abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education: "Can't get married so where does that leave me?"

Journal of LGBT Youth

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-79

  Fisher, Christopher Micheal ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstinence; Adolescence; LGBT; Resiliency; Sex education; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 60749094485     PISSN: 19361653     EISSN: 19361661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19361650802396775     Document Type: Article

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