Coping with religious and cultural homophobia: Emotion and narratives of identity threat among British Muslim gay men

Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 71-89

  Jaspal, Rusi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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