Gender, Ethnicity, Religiosity, and Same-sex Sexual Attraction and the Acceptance of Same-sex Sexuality and Gender Non-conformity

Sex Roles

Volumn 68, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 724-737

  Collier, Kate L ^a   Bos, Henny M W ^b   Merry, Michael S ^b   Sandfort, Theo G M ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Ethnicity; Gender non conformity; Religiosity; Sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877782888     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-012-0135-5     Document Type: Article

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