Examine the impact of disclosure on sons whose fathers are gay! In
this book, Andrew Gottlieb, author of Out of the Twilight: Fathers
of Gay Men Speak, explores yet another side of the impact of
homosexuality on families. He now looks at how sons react to
learning that their fathers are gay, allowing us to see, over time,
how this has changed their family relationships and their own
lives. Simply and elegantly written, this psychoanalytically
oriented qualitative research study is accessible to both the
beginner and the more advanced researcher and practitioner. It
draws from a wide range of literary, popular, and psychological
sources and includes an interview guide, a reference section, and
an index. When someone discloses as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, it
is not just an individual event. It is a family event. Based on
estimates of married gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons, a spouse's
coming out affects up to 2,000,000 couples. Yet, its impact has
been largely ignored. Children's voices are the least often heard.
. . . Little has been written about sons of fathers who came out
during or after marriage. Data for studies that do exist most often
draw from the fathers' point of view. . . . The significance of
this study lies in its comprehensive, detailed picture of sons and
gay fathers as they develop their separate self-images as well as
the images of their son-father relationships over time. Painful,
sensitive, often triumphant, the stories and [the author's]
analysis of their thoughts, perceptions, and feelings afford a
multidimensional, longitudinal viewing. Step by step, we follow the
complicated dance of these sons and fathers as they develop and
define their connection. from the Foreword by Amity Pierce Buxton,
Author of The Other Side of the Closet: The Coming-Out Crisis for
Straight Spouses and Families Sons Talk About Their Gay Fathers:
Life Curves is a storybookan extended narrative moved along, but
not overshadowed, by psychoanalytic theory. The Introduction
briefly reviews more recent writings of the fathering experience as
told by gay men themselves, setting the stage for: Father to Childa
look at the father as seen through the ever-shifting eyes of his
son at different phases of the life cycle The Quest for the Real
Fatheran examination of sons' responses to their fathers'
homosexuality as captured in film, fiction, nonfiction, television,
and the psychological literature Methodologythe story of the
research process, including sampling, the search for subjects,
trustworthiness, the interview, bias, and data collection The
Storiesan anthology of narratives the author constructed from the
interview material, painting an intimate portrait of each
individual son Findingsa categorical analysis Discussiona summary
of all the preceding material cast in a developmental framework,
highlighting implications for future research and clinical practice
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