"Once You've Blended the Cake, You Can't Take the Parts Back to the Main Ingredients": Black Gay and Bisexual Men's Descriptions and Experiences of Intersectionality

Sex Roles

Volumn 68, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 754-767

  Bowleg, Lisa ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black gay and bisexual men; Intersectionality; Racism; Resilience; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877768492     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-012-0152-4     Document Type: Article

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