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Unique Challenges Faced By Gay African-American Youth ‘Coming Out’ To Families
January 24, 2013 by NewsBot
Coming out to one's family can be stressful, but gay black males face a unique set of personal, familial and social challenges. "Parents and youths alike worry that gay men cannot meet the rigid expectations of exaggerated masculinity maintained by their families and communities," says Michael C. LaSala, director of the Master of Social Work program at Rutgers University School of Social Work...