Coping with minority stress in the intimate relationships of lesbian women, gay men, and bisexuals. Ghent University
Stigma, prejudice, and discrimination create a stressful social environment that can lead to mental health problems in lesbian women, gay men, and bisexuals (i.e. LGBs) as well as lower intimate relationship satisfaction. But how exactly do those minority specific stressors influence intimate relationship characteristics? As visibility management (i.e. the ongoing process by which LGBs make decisions about whether they will disclose their ...