Coming-Out in the Intersections

Examining Relationality in How Korean Gay Men in Seattle Navigate Church, Culture and Family through a Pacific Lens

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3655232
AutoresPatrick S Thomsen (Te Wānanga o Waipapa School of Māori Studies and Pacific Studies, Faculty of Arts, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand), Patrick Thomsen (0000-0001-7498-7192, University of Auckland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen68
Número6
Páginas1015-1036
Fecha de publicación2021-05-12
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2019.1695423
PMID31799898
OpenAlexW2993231536
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas35

This paper uses Pacific Research Methodologies (PRM) to explore intersectionality in how Korean gay men navigate culture, family, and religion in relation to coming-out publicly in Seattle. By framing this study within a Pacific itulagi (worldview), I construct an argument that posits that Korean gay men in Seattle-due to the Korean American community being intertwined with the Christian Church-often find their sense of ethnic identity and family relationally co-constructed by a Christian one. Informants navigated this using Narratives of Convenience (NoC), whereby they reveal their sexual identity to a family member(s) and together, build a story that projects a heteronormative image of the self to the wider Korean American community. Contextually, a NoC helps avoid friction in wider familial and community circles, permitting informants to live gay lives openly with partners in US society. A full coming-out narrative by contrast often had a detrimental effect on other informants

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Ethnic group · Family values · Framing (construction · Identity (music · Intersectionality · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy