Gay Families: Challenging Racial and Sexual/Gender Minority Stressors through Social Support

Queering Disability: Exploring the Resilience of Sexual and Gender Minority Persons Living With Disabilities

“…The aim of the present study was to understand how 13 SGMPWDs described their lived experiences of resilience, using a qualitative phenomenological approach with a critical intersectional framework. Participants framed the meaning of resilience as “bouncing back” from difficult circumstances and “overcoming hardships.” Participants conceptualized resilience, similar to other study findings (Levitt et al, 2016; McConnell et al, 2018; Meyer, 2015), as a set of learned behaviors and the presence of social support that fostered their ability to “bounce back” or to “avoid giving up” when faced with hardships and adversity.…”

“…Resilience is a positive adaption to adversarial conditions, ranging from everyday stressors to significant life events (Levitt, Horne, Puckett, Sweeney, & Hampton, 2016; McConnell et al, 2018). Resilience is further described as bouncing back, succeeding against the odds (Goodley & Runswick-Cole, 2011), an ability to navigate adversity in a manner that protects well-being (Hilliard et al, 2015), and having positive mental and physical health outcomes despite serious threats to development (Frost & Meyer, 2013; Meyer, 2015).…”

“…Despite these critiques of resilience, scholars suggest the need to consider resilience strategies used to reduce the risk of harmful physical and mental health outcomes (Conover & Israel, 2018; Hilliard et al, 2015). The protective nature of resilience and its ability to mitigate the detrimental impact of multiple minority stress on SGMPWDs make it important to study (Hilliard et al, 2015; Levitt et al, 2016; McConnell et al, 2018). Moreover, scholars have called on researchers to move away from solely discussing risks faced by intersectional populations to examining protective factors, such as resilience, to more comprehensively address health concerns (Asakura, 2017; Kwon, 2013; Meyer, 2015; Remedios & Snyder, 2015).…”

Social-structural properties and HIV prevention among young men who have sex with men in the ballroom house and independent gay family communities

“…In many ways, gay families emerge in response to these challenges and help their members overcome rejection from mainstream cultural communities (Horne et al, 2014; Kubicek, McNeeley, Holloway, Weiss, & Kipke, 2013; Levitt, Horne, Puckett, Sweeney, & Hampton, 2015). Like their heteronormative counterparts, gay family structures embrace specific family roles (e.g., mother, father, sibling) that are used as vehicles to communicate norms and values across generations (Stack & Burton, 1993).…”

Moonlight, Intersectionality, and the Life Course Perspective: Directing Future Research on Sexual Minorities in Family Studies

“…A review might be situated historically, exposing the literature on families during the crack‐cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s (Dunlap, Golub, & Johnson, ), or couched in the literature on the street life of some young Black men (e.g., Payne, ). It could be considered from a resiliency perspective, in the literature on social support provided to youth who are sexual and/or racial minorities, particularly support from untraditional people and systems (Levitt, Horne, Pucket, Sweeney, & Hampton, ; Weston, ). The reality that Moonlight could be situated in all of these literatures not only speaks to the film's breadth, craft, and novelty; it also underscores the complexity of Chiron's development as a sexual minority.…”