African-American Same-Gender-Loving Youths and Families in Urban Schools

Abstract

Abstract The focus of this article is the phenomenological experiences of disadvantaged African-American same-gender-loving youths and their families within urban schools and surrounding lower-income communities. African-American disadvantaged youths are less likely than Euro-American youths to self-label as gay male, lesbian, or transgender youths. The author discusses the following topics: (1) Finkelhor's developmental victimology model, (2) African-American same-gender-loving youths, (3) the African-American families of same-gender-loving youths, (4) minority stress, and (5) urban schools.