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Beyond Coming Out: New Insights About Glbq College Students Of Color, Terrell Strayhorn, Royel Johnson, Trevion Henderson, Derrick Tillman-Kelly Sep 2015

Beyond Coming Out: New Insights About Glbq College Students Of Color, Terrell Strayhorn, Royel Johnson, Trevion Henderson, Derrick Tillman-Kelly

Dr. Royel M. Johnson

Despite considerable progress over the years, more information is needed about the experiences of GLBQ college students of color to create conditions that engender their success. Beyond Coming Out responds to this clarion call, drawing on nearly 8 years of data from 50 participants at over 20 public and private universities in the United States. 

This 52-page report includes never-before published results about how GLBQ college students of color identify, how they deploy sexual identity labels and the meaning they make of such processes, as well as the strategies they utilize when disclosing their sexual identity to others. For instance, …