Urban Students' Attitudes About Sexual Minorities Across Intersections of Sex and Race/Ethnicity: Data From a Longitudinal Study

Journal of LGBT Youth

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 42-58

  Gastic, Billie ^a  

^a Beam Youth Collaborative   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; attitudes; ethnicity; gender; Latina o; longitudinal research; race; sexual minority; urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856096796     PISSN: 19361653     EISSN: 19361661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19361653.2012.627023     Document Type: Article

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