I have decided to focus my project on the idea of the coming out narrative as information as process. There are innumerable sources discussing the act of coming out but few if any in LIS discussing it as an act of information. This first update is simply the bibliography of sources I have been gathering.
Preliminary Project Resource List
- Barton, B. (2012). Pray the gay away: The extraordinary lives of Bible Belt gays.
New York, NY: New York University Press. - Brown, M.A. (2011). Coming out narratives: Realities of intersectionality
(Doctoral dissertation, Georgia State University). Retrieved from
http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/63 - Buckland, M.K. (1991). Information as thing. Journal of the American Society of
Information Science, 42(5), 351-361. - Corrigan, P.W., Kosyluk, K.A., & Rusch, N. (2013). Reducing self-stigma by
coming out proud. American Journal of Public Health, 103(5), 794-800. - Denes, A., & Afifi, T.D. (2014). Coming out again: Exploring GLBQ individuals’
communication with their parents after the first coming out. Journal of
GLBT Family Studies, 10(3), 298-325. - Dunlap, A. (2014). Coming out narratives across generations. Journal of Gay
and Lesbian Social Services, 26(3), 318-335. doi:
10.1080/10538720.2014.924460 - Goldman, L. (2008). Coming out, coming in: Nurturing the well-being and
inclusion of gay youth in mainstream society. New York, NY: Routledge. - Gray, M.L. (2009). Negotiating identities/queering desires: Coming out online
and the remediation of the coming-out story. Journal of Computer-
Mediated Communication, 14(4), 1162-1189. doi:10.1111/j.1083-
6101.2009.01485.x - Gray, M.L. (2009). Out in the country: Youth, media, and queer visibility in
rural America. New York, NY: New York University Press. - Plummer, K. (1995). Telling sexual stories: Power, change, and social worlds.
New York, NY: Routledge. - Rhoads, R.A. (1994). Coming out in college: The struggle for a queer identity.
Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey. - Riley, B.H. (2010). GLB adolescent’s “coming out.” Journal of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 23(1), 3-10. - Savin-Williams, R.C. (2001). Mom, Dad. I’m gay.: How families negotiate
coming out. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. - Signorile, M. (1993). Queer in America: Sex, media, and the closets of power.
New York, NY: Random House. - Vargo, M.E. (1998). Acts of disclosure: The coming-out process of
contemporary gay men. New York, NY: The Haworth Press.