Sex is a Minor Thing: Parents of Gay Sons Negotiating the Social Influences of Coming Out |
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Authors: | Joanne Cassar Marthese Grima Sultana |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Youth and Community Studies,University of Malta,Msida,Malta |
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Abstract: | Social influences emanating from cultural and religious factors confront gay young people in their coming out process and often play a part in determining how their parents react to the ‘news’. This article focuses on the ways that social influences revolving around culture, religion and homosexuality interact in ways that shape the perceptions and experiences of Maltese parents in relation to the coming out of their children, as described by them. The study locates the parents as active and passive social agents caught between religious and cultural factors, in ways which involve resistance and complacency, through the production of ‘entanglements’. |
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