Offsetting Risks: High School Gay-Straight Alliances and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Youth

School Psychology Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 161-174

  Heck, Nicholas C ^a   Flentje, Annesa ^a   Cochran, Bryan N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Gay straight alliance; High school; LGBT; Sexual minority youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959349328     PISSN: 10453830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023226     Document Type: Article

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