Abstract
This chapter interrogates the coming out experiences of Latinx LGBT communities. Readers are introduced to Sebastián Jiménez Sánchez—a typical respondent to the Social Justice Sexuality (SJS) Project. Through his experiences readers gain insights into issues of racial and ethnic identity for LGBT people of color, practices of negotiating the “coming out” process, as well as the myriad of experiences of navigating religion and spirituality.
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Sebastián Jiménez Sánchez is a fictionalized character created from a composite of quantitative data collected in 2010 by the SJS Project (N = 1159). Wherever appropriate, liberties were taken in order to facilitate readability. For example, though data about job titles were not collected, we assigned an appropriate one to Jiménez Sánchez.
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Pastrana, A.(., Battle, J., Harris, A. (2017). Coming Out and Being Out. In: An Examination of Latinx LGBT Populations Across the United States. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56074-2_3
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