'What's it like on your side of the pond?': A cross-cultural comparison of modern and old-fashioned homonegativity between North American and European samples

Psychology and Sexuality

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 277-296

  McDermott, Daragh T ^a   Blair, Karen L ^b  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cross cultural comparison; gay men; lesbian women; modern homonegativity; old fashioned homonegativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865415573     PISSN: 19419899     EISSN: 19419902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2012.700032     Document Type: Article

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