D Compton
Biographic Data
| ID | 68786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Compton |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Compton |
| SIGNATURE | COMPTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Orleans |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1521-0196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Perceived Impact of Same-sex Marriage on the Family, Religious Freedom, and the LGBTQ+ Community
“It Was Perfectly Queer”: LGBTQ+ Engagement and Wedding Celebrations
A decade after the 2015 US Supreme Court ruling that legalized marriage between same-sex couples across the country, a majority of same-sex couples in the US are married. Building on Finch’s (2007) concept of “displaying families” and Mamali and Stevens’ (2020) concept of “display work” in weddings, we examine wedding rituals of same-sex couples in the United States. As part of a larger study on marriage equality in the US conducted in 2022–2024,…
Thinking Sex in Sociology: Sexualities Research in the Twenty-First Century
In this article, we take stock of major developments in sociological approaches to the study of sexual life in the twenty-first century. First, we highlight the breadth of theoretical and methodological approaches within the sociology of sexualities subfield. We explore the growth of research that centers race, ethnicity, age, and geographic location within the study of sexualities. We also showcase the growing body of transnational research that…
Partnership patterns and living arrangements of LGBTQ+ identifying US adults: Estimates from a probability-based survey
BACKGROUNDMost national surveys exclude sexual and gender identity (SOGI) measures or do not link them with household rosters and non-coresidential partnership questions, limiting demographic estimates of LGBTQ+ family life. OBJECTIVEWe examine differences in relationship status and living arrangements between LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ+ identifying US adults.Specifically, we compare the shares of those who live with a spouse, live with an unmarried pa…
Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure
Strategies for including noncisgender responses in demographic analyses remain subjects of ongoing debate and refinement. The Household Pulse Survey is one of the first data products by the U.S. Census Bureau to incorporate a two-step gender identity measure. This is significant because the survey, although experimental, is one of the largest federal nationally representative samples (n = 668,273) that allows for the enumeration of noncisgender p…
Does the National Crime Victimization Survey Capture the Reality of Sexual Violence? Mapping #WhyIDidntReport to National Crime Victimization Survey Categories
Incidents of sexual violence frequently go unreported. While victimization surveys provide insight into the reasons why, evidence suggests that these surveys are failing to capture some of the most important reasons survivors do not report. This study draws on tweets using #WhyIDidntReport to examine how the reasons provided by survivors on social media map onto the National Crime Victimization Survey's categorization schema. We find that the sur…
The Case for “Other: Measuring Gender and Sexual Identity in Survey Research
As more people identify outside of binary gender categories and heterosexuality, survey research must adapt to better capture respondents' gender and sexual identities. Making the case for “other,” in this article, we review the history and contemporary measurement of sex/gender and sexuality to show how “other, please specify” options provide more accurate means for collecting data. Drawing from race/ethnicity data collection's long history of e…
For the Children: Attitudes Toward Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Attitudes Toward Mononormativity and Polyamorous Legal Rights in the US
What to Do with “Other, Describe
Measuring social categories and phenomena in survey questionnaires is complicated in a dynamic and diverse society. The use of “other, describe”–style open-ended text boxes can address this issue, but researchers rarely use these data because they lack guidance on how to code open-text information and manage small samples for analyses. The authors offer a roadmap to key decisions regarding the use of “other, describe” answer options and data duri…
Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth
Looking beyond marital status: What we can learn from relationship status measures
ObjectiveWith needed and growing attention to sexual minorities and unmarried individuals, there is a need to consider how best to capture relationships and relationship organization in family studies.BackgroundTraditional measures of marital status are commonly used to examine differences in relationships and socioeconomic outcomes, but they do not adequately capture the diversity of relationship experiences and leave certain types of relationsh…
Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory
Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage, Polyamorous Marriage, and Conventional Marriage Ideals Among College Students in the Southeastern United States
Changing Social Context and Queer Recruitment Panics
Following the Supreme Court’s decision on marriage equality, a sense of “mission accomplished” quickly shifted focus away from the legal concerns of same-sex families. One year later, legal uncertainties remain for LGBT parents and children, resulting in differing access to and use of familial rights across states
Evaluating the Use of a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure in the 2018 General Social Survey
In 2018, the General Social Survey (GSS) asked some respondents for their sex assigned at birth and current gender identity, in addition to the ongoing practice of having survey interviewers code respondent sex. Between 0.44% and 0.93% of the respondents who were surveyed identified as transgender, identified with a gender that does not conventionally correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth, or identified the sex they were assigned at b…
Legalizing LGBT Families: How the Law Shapes Parenthood
"The decision to have a child is seldom a simple one, often fraught with complexities regarding emotional readiness, finances, marital status, and compatibility with life and career goals. Rarely, though, do individuals consider the role of the law in facilitating or inhibiting their ability to have a child or to parent. For LGBT individuals, however, parenting is saturated with legality -- including the initial decision of whether to have a chil…
Attitudes Toward LGBT Marriage and Legal Protections Post-Obergefell
LG(BT) Families and Counting
Counting and understanding lesbian and gay families have gained attention over the last decade in popular culture, policy, and academic research. Contentious debates on family values and same‐sex marriage, increasing rates of social tolerance for homosexuality, and a greater general academic attention on issues of sexual orientation have partially spurred this attention in demographic analysis of lesbian and gay families. It is becoming increasin…
Patterns of Bisexuality in America
In this article the authors use data from the 2002 and 2006 to 2008 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to analyze the most recent patterns of bisexuality in the United States. There has been little demographic work done on the issue of bisexuality, and this article strives to explore some aspects of this sexual orientation. Using a social constructionist definition of sexuality, the authors enumerate those who identify, desire, and behave as…
Reconciling LGB and Christian Identities in the Rural South
Drawing on in-depth interviews with rural Christians living in the South who identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB), this study analyzes how they negotiate their religious, geographic, and sexual identities. We find that most interviewees employed two strategies to reconcile their Christian and gay identities: emphasizing a personal connection to an accepting God and finding a local church in their rural community in which they felt accepte…
Identity Versus Identification: How LGBTQ Parents Identify Their Children on Census Surveys
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals often rely on conceptions of family that fall outside of heteronormative definitions regarding blood or legal ties. As a consequence, there is a greater potential for conflict between family identities and identification options on survey instruments. Drawing on interviews with 100 LGBTQ parents, the authors examined conflicts between identity and identification faced by LGBTQ par…
Developing and Assessing Intercoder Reliability in Studies of Group Interaction
Although group interaction is a rich source of data, it offers many challenges for analysis. We discuss how pretesting can solve many coding and reliability issues before the actual data collection and analysis. We also consider how coding schemes can be developed, how coders can be trained, and how coder reliability can be ascertained. We examine the properties of different estimates of intercoder reliability and detail how these relate to decis…
Beyond the Castro: The Role of Demographics in the Selection of Gay and Lesbian Enclaves
Although some qualitative research has noted differences in gay and lesbian enclaves based on characteristics such as race and sex, in this article, we draw upon quantitative data from the U.S. Census to demonstrate the manner in which enclave formation is affected by the interaction of sexual orientation and other demographic characteristics (such as sex, race, age, and income). We focus our attention on enclaves located in three counties in the…
Legislating the Family: The Effect of State Family Laws on the Presence of Children in Same-Sex Households
Faced with legal animus or outright legal prohibitions on adoption, fostering, or surrogacy, gay men and lesbians could be deterred from family formation. In this article, we use 2000 U.S. Census data to assess the validity of this assumption by examining the effect of positive and negative family laws on the presence of children in the households of same-sex unmarried partners. In doing so, we seek to assess whether formal law plays a central ro…
Beyond the Castro: The Role of Demographics in the Selection of Gay and Lesbian Enclaves
Although some qualitative research has noted differences in gay and lesbian enclaves based on characteristics such as race and sex, in this article, we draw upon quantitative data from the U.S. Census to demonstrate the manner in which enclave formation is affected by the interaction of sexual orientation and other demographic characteristics (such as sex, race, age, and income). We focus our attention on enclaves located in three counties in the…
Reconciling LGB and Christian Identities in the Rural South
Drawing on in-depth interviews with rural Christians living in the South who identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB), this study analyzes how they negotiate their religious, geographic, and sexual identities. We find that most interviewees employed two strategies to reconcile their Christian and gay identities: emphasizing a personal connection to an accepting God and finding a local church in their rural community in which they felt accepte…
Attitudes Toward LGBT Marriage and Legal Protections Post-Obergefell
Developing and Assessing Intercoder Reliability in Studies of Group Interaction
Although group interaction is a rich source of data, it offers many challenges for analysis. We discuss how pretesting can solve many coding and reliability issues before the actual data collection and analysis. We also consider how coding schemes can be developed, how coders can be trained, and how coder reliability can be ascertained. We examine the properties of different estimates of intercoder reliability and detail how these relate to decis…
Evaluating the Use of a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure in the 2018 General Social Survey
In 2018, the General Social Survey (GSS) asked some respondents for their sex assigned at birth and current gender identity, in addition to the ongoing practice of having survey interviewers code respondent sex. Between 0.44% and 0.93% of the respondents who were surveyed identified as transgender, identified with a gender that does not conventionally correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth, or identified the sex they were assigned at b…
LG(BT) Families and Counting
Counting and understanding lesbian and gay families have gained attention over the last decade in popular culture, policy, and academic research. Contentious debates on family values and same‐sex marriage, increasing rates of social tolerance for homosexuality, and a greater general academic attention on issues of sexual orientation have partially spurred this attention in demographic analysis of lesbian and gay families. It is becoming increasin…
Legislating the Family: The Effect of State Family Laws on the Presence of Children in Same-Sex Households
Faced with legal animus or outright legal prohibitions on adoption, fostering, or surrogacy, gay men and lesbians could be deterred from family formation. In this article, we use 2000 U.S. Census data to assess the validity of this assumption by examining the effect of positive and negative family laws on the presence of children in the households of same-sex unmarried partners. In doing so, we seek to assess whether formal law plays a central ro…
Patterns of Bisexuality in America
In this article the authors use data from the 2002 and 2006 to 2008 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to analyze the most recent patterns of bisexuality in the United States. There has been little demographic work done on the issue of bisexuality, and this article strives to explore some aspects of this sexual orientation. Using a social constructionist definition of sexuality, the authors enumerate those who identify, desire, and behave as…
Looking beyond marital status: What we can learn from relationship status measures
ObjectiveWith needed and growing attention to sexual minorities and unmarried individuals, there is a need to consider how best to capture relationships and relationship organization in family studies.BackgroundTraditional measures of marital status are commonly used to examine differences in relationships and socioeconomic outcomes, but they do not adequately capture the diversity of relationship experiences and leave certain types of relationsh…
The Case for “Other: Measuring Gender and Sexual Identity in Survey Research
As more people identify outside of binary gender categories and heterosexuality, survey research must adapt to better capture respondents' gender and sexual identities. Making the case for “other,” in this article, we review the history and contemporary measurement of sex/gender and sexuality to show how “other, please specify” options provide more accurate means for collecting data. Drawing from race/ethnicity data collection's long history of e…
What to Do with “Other, Describe
Measuring social categories and phenomena in survey questionnaires is complicated in a dynamic and diverse society. The use of “other, describe”–style open-ended text boxes can address this issue, but researchers rarely use these data because they lack guidance on how to code open-text information and manage small samples for analyses. The authors offer a roadmap to key decisions regarding the use of “other, describe” answer options and data duri…
For the Children: Attitudes Toward Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Identity Versus Identification: How LGBTQ Parents Identify Their Children on Census Surveys
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals often rely on conceptions of family that fall outside of heteronormative definitions regarding blood or legal ties. As a consequence, there is a greater potential for conflict between family identities and identification options on survey instruments. Drawing on interviews with 100 LGBTQ parents, the authors examined conflicts between identity and identification faced by LGBTQ par…
Same-Sex Partners: The Social Demography of Sexual Orientation
Legislating the Family: The Effect of State Family Laws on the Presence of Children in Same-Sex Households
Faced with legal animus or outright legal prohibitions on adoption, fostering, or surrogacy, gay men and lesbians could be deterred from family formation. In this article, we use 2000 U.S. Census data to assess the validity of this assumption by examining the effect of positive and negative family laws on the presence of children in the households of same-sex unmarried partners. In doing so, we seek to assess whether formal law plays a central ro…
Developing and Assessing Intercoder Reliability in Studies of Group Interaction
Although group interaction is a rich source of data, it offers many challenges for analysis. We discuss how pretesting can solve many coding and reliability issues before the actual data collection and analysis. We also consider how coding schemes can be developed, how coders can be trained, and how coder reliability can be ascertained. We examine the properties of different estimates of intercoder reliability and detail how these relate to decis…
Beyond the Castro: The Role of Demographics in the Selection of Gay and Lesbian Enclaves
Although some qualitative research has noted differences in gay and lesbian enclaves based on characteristics such as race and sex, in this article, we draw upon quantitative data from the U.S. Census to demonstrate the manner in which enclave formation is affected by the interaction of sexual orientation and other demographic characteristics (such as sex, race, age, and income). We focus our attention on enclaves located in three counties in the…
Identity Versus Identification: How LGBTQ Parents Identify Their Children on Census Surveys
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals often rely on conceptions of family that fall outside of heteronormative definitions regarding blood or legal ties. As a consequence, there is a greater potential for conflict between family identities and identification options on survey instruments. Drawing on interviews with 100 LGBTQ parents, the authors examined conflicts between identity and identification faced by LGBTQ par…
LG(BT) Families and Counting
Counting and understanding lesbian and gay families have gained attention over the last decade in popular culture, policy, and academic research. Contentious debates on family values and same‐sex marriage, increasing rates of social tolerance for homosexuality, and a greater general academic attention on issues of sexual orientation have partially spurred this attention in demographic analysis of lesbian and gay families. It is becoming increasin…
Patterns of Bisexuality in America
In this article the authors use data from the 2002 and 2006 to 2008 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to analyze the most recent patterns of bisexuality in the United States. There has been little demographic work done on the issue of bisexuality, and this article strives to explore some aspects of this sexual orientation. Using a social constructionist definition of sexuality, the authors enumerate those who identify, desire, and behave as…
Reconciling LGB and Christian Identities in the Rural South
Drawing on in-depth interviews with rural Christians living in the South who identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB), this study analyzes how they negotiate their religious, geographic, and sexual identities. We find that most interviewees employed two strategies to reconcile their Christian and gay identities: emphasizing a personal connection to an accepting God and finding a local church in their rural community in which they felt accepte…
Legalizing LGBT Families: How the Law Shapes Parenthood
"The decision to have a child is seldom a simple one, often fraught with complexities regarding emotional readiness, finances, marital status, and compatibility with life and career goals. Rarely, though, do individuals consider the role of the law in facilitating or inhibiting their ability to have a child or to parent. For LGBT individuals, however, parenting is saturated with legality -- including the initial decision of whether to have a chil…
Attitudes Toward LGBT Marriage and Legal Protections Post-Obergefell
Changing Social Context and Queer Recruitment Panics
Following the Supreme Court’s decision on marriage equality, a sense of “mission accomplished” quickly shifted focus away from the legal concerns of same-sex families. One year later, legal uncertainties remain for LGBT parents and children, resulting in differing access to and use of familial rights across states
Evaluating the Use of a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure in the 2018 General Social Survey
In 2018, the General Social Survey (GSS) asked some respondents for their sex assigned at birth and current gender identity, in addition to the ongoing practice of having survey interviewers code respondent sex. Between 0.44% and 0.93% of the respondents who were surveyed identified as transgender, identified with a gender that does not conventionally correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth, or identified the sex they were assigned at b…
Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage, Polyamorous Marriage, and Conventional Marriage Ideals Among College Students in the Southeastern United States
Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory
Attitudes Toward Mononormativity and Polyamorous Legal Rights in the US
What to Do with “Other, Describe
Measuring social categories and phenomena in survey questionnaires is complicated in a dynamic and diverse society. The use of “other, describe”–style open-ended text boxes can address this issue, but researchers rarely use these data because they lack guidance on how to code open-text information and manage small samples for analyses. The authors offer a roadmap to key decisions regarding the use of “other, describe” answer options and data duri…
Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth
Looking beyond marital status: What we can learn from relationship status measures
ObjectiveWith needed and growing attention to sexual minorities and unmarried individuals, there is a need to consider how best to capture relationships and relationship organization in family studies.BackgroundTraditional measures of marital status are commonly used to examine differences in relationships and socioeconomic outcomes, but they do not adequately capture the diversity of relationship experiences and leave certain types of relationsh…
Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure
Strategies for including noncisgender responses in demographic analyses remain subjects of ongoing debate and refinement. The Household Pulse Survey is one of the first data products by the U.S. Census Bureau to incorporate a two-step gender identity measure. This is significant because the survey, although experimental, is one of the largest federal nationally representative samples (n = 668,273) that allows for the enumeration of noncisgender p…
Does the National Crime Victimization Survey Capture the Reality of Sexual Violence? Mapping #WhyIDidntReport to National Crime Victimization Survey Categories
Incidents of sexual violence frequently go unreported. While victimization surveys provide insight into the reasons why, evidence suggests that these surveys are failing to capture some of the most important reasons survivors do not report. This study draws on tweets using #WhyIDidntReport to examine how the reasons provided by survivors on social media map onto the National Crime Victimization Survey's categorization schema. We find that the sur…
The Case for “Other: Measuring Gender and Sexual Identity in Survey Research
As more people identify outside of binary gender categories and heterosexuality, survey research must adapt to better capture respondents' gender and sexual identities. Making the case for “other,” in this article, we review the history and contemporary measurement of sex/gender and sexuality to show how “other, please specify” options provide more accurate means for collecting data. Drawing from race/ethnicity data collection's long history of e…
For the Children: Attitudes Toward Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Perceived Impact of Same-sex Marriage on the Family, Religious Freedom, and the LGBTQ+ Community
“It Was Perfectly Queer”: LGBTQ+ Engagement and Wedding Celebrations
A decade after the 2015 US Supreme Court ruling that legalized marriage between same-sex couples across the country, a majority of same-sex couples in the US are married. Building on Finch’s (2007) concept of “displaying families” and Mamali and Stevens’ (2020) concept of “display work” in weddings, we examine wedding rituals of same-sex couples in the United States. As part of a larger study on marriage equality in the US conducted in 2022–2024,…
Thinking Sex in Sociology: Sexualities Research in the Twenty-First Century
In this article, we take stock of major developments in sociological approaches to the study of sexual life in the twenty-first century. First, we highlight the breadth of theoretical and methodological approaches within the sociology of sexualities subfield. We explore the growth of research that centers race, ethnicity, age, and geographic location within the study of sexualities. We also showcase the growing body of transnational research that…
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