The family-friends of older gay men and lesbians

Sexual Inequalities and Social Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 213-232

  de Vries, Brian ^a,b   Hoctel, Patrick ^c  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Gerontological Society of America   (United States)

^c NONE

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