Not My Proudest Moment”

Guilt, Regret, and the Coming-Out Narrative

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11077751
AutoresLauren Jae Gutterman (0009-0006-5889-9428, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume46
Fascículo1
Páginas48-70
Data de publicação2019-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Oral History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-0798 • E-ISSN: 1533-8592
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ohr/ohy059
OpenAlexW2908287042
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas15

This article draws on oral history interviews with twenty-six lesbian and bisexual women who came out within the context of heterosexual marriages between the 1970s and the early 2000s. Despite the extent to which the LGBTQ community emphasizes narratives of progress and triumph, feelings of shame, guilt, regret, and ambivalence figured significantly in these women's life stories, particularly with regard to their experiences of coming out. This article thus considers how oral history can provide queer narrators with an opportunity to share negative feelings that often remain unspoken within mainstream LGBTQ culture and politics.

Ambivalence · Art · Context (archaeology) · Feeling · Lesbian · Literature · Mainstream · Narrative · Oral history · Political science · Politics · Queer · Regret · Shame · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology