Abstract
Familial experiences of sexuality, especially lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) sexualities, often have unique characteristics – characteristics that do not resemble the experiences of other identities such as gender, age, and ethnicity. With gender, for example, families often consist of men and women; being female or male is not necessarily deviant or inherently wrong, and there is an expectation that families will be composed of cisgender men and women.
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Adams, T.E. (2017). Being a (Gay) Duck in a Family of (Heterosexual) Swans. In: Leavy, P. (eds) Privilege Through the Looking-Glass. Personal/Public Scholarship. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-140-7_11
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