Negotiating Connection to GLBT Experience: Family Members' Experience of Anti-GLBT Movements and Policies

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-96

  Arm, Jennifer R ^a   Horne, Sharon G ^a   Levitt, Heidi M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

anti GLBT legislation; family of origin; gay; lesbian; minority stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849114921     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012813     Document Type: Article

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