Sexual health and life experiences: Voices from behaviourally bisexual latino men in the Midwestern USA

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1073-1089

  Martinez, Omar ^a,b   Dodge, Brian ^a   Reece, Michael ^a   Schnarrs, Phillip W ^a   Rhodes, Scott D ^c   Goncalves, Gabriel ^a   Muñoz Laboy, Miguel ^d   Malebranche, David ^e   van der Polf, Barbara ^a,f   Nix, Ryan ^g   Kelle, Guadalupe ^h   Fortenberry, J Dennis ^f  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Emory University ^*  (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Step Up Inc   (United States)

^h Casa Mateo/Latino Action League Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisexual; Latino; Men who have sex with both men and women (MSMW); Migration; USA

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BISEXUALITY; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051836323     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2011.600461     Document Type: Article

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