TY - GEN
T1 - Coming out in the twenty-first century
AU - Coleman-Fountain, Edmund
PY - 2025/3/1
Y1 - 2025/3/1
N2 - This entry explores coming out in the twenty-first century. It addresses some key approaches, including conceptualizations of coming out as a stage in the formation of the self, a significant life event associated with personal transformation and entry into a community, and, following Orne, a strategic, ongoing process of identity management. The entry indicates some potentially significant social changes of the twenty-first century that have reshaped the meaning and process of coming out, such as the normalization of some, if not all, LGBT identities, and highlights the continued need to think of identity management and disclosure as central to the experience of holding an LGBT identity.
AB - This entry explores coming out in the twenty-first century. It addresses some key approaches, including conceptualizations of coming out as a stage in the formation of the self, a significant life event associated with personal transformation and entry into a community, and, following Orne, a strategic, ongoing process of identity management. The entry indicates some potentially significant social changes of the twenty-first century that have reshaped the meaning and process of coming out, such as the normalization of some, if not all, LGBT identities, and highlights the continued need to think of identity management and disclosure as central to the experience of holding an LGBT identity.
KW - Coming Out
KW - LGBT+
UR - https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elgar-encyclopedia-of-queer-studies-9781803922096.html
UR - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803922102.ch017
M3 - Other contribution
SN - 9781803922096
T3 - Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing
ER -