TY - JOUR
T1 - Discursive Struggles Animating Individuals' Talk About Their Parents' Coming Out as Lesbian or Gay
AU - Breshears, Diana
AU - Braithwaite, Dawn O.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 7, Division of Migratory Bird Management provided aerial support and assisted with capture of geese. We thank the many field staff who participated in capture, handling, and sampling of geese, Daniel Finley for analysis of samples, and Dirk Derksen, Thierry Work, and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. government.
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - The goal in the present study was to understand the discourses that animate children's talk about having a parent come out and how these discourses interplay to create meaning. Data were gathered through 20 in-depth interviews with adults who remembered a parent coming out to them as lesbian or gay. One discursive struggle animated the participants' talk about their parents' coming out: the discourse of lesbian and gay identity as wrong vs. the discourse of lesbian and gay identity as acceptable. Analysis of participants' talk about their familial identities revealed a range of avenues for resisting the negative discourses regarding lesbian and gay identities. The findings highlight discursive power in participants' talk about their familial identities and how participants organize the conflicting messages they receive in their culture and in relationships regarding family identities.
AB - The goal in the present study was to understand the discourses that animate children's talk about having a parent come out and how these discourses interplay to create meaning. Data were gathered through 20 in-depth interviews with adults who remembered a parent coming out to them as lesbian or gay. One discursive struggle animated the participants' talk about their parents' coming out: the discourse of lesbian and gay identity as wrong vs. the discourse of lesbian and gay identity as acceptable. Analysis of participants' talk about their familial identities revealed a range of avenues for resisting the negative discourses regarding lesbian and gay identities. The findings highlight discursive power in participants' talk about their familial identities and how participants organize the conflicting messages they receive in their culture and in relationships regarding family identities.
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U2 - 10.1080/15267431.2014.908197
DO - 10.1080/15267431.2014.908197
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84902981901
SN - 1526-7431
VL - 14
SP - 189
EP - 207
JO - Journal of Family Communication
JF - Journal of Family Communication
IS - 3
ER -