It's just the joy of existing
A Photo Elicitation of LGBTQ+ Students' Healthy Intimate Relationships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3606598 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amanda L Mollet (0000-0002-3173-7940, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Kansas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1956-1979 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00918369.2024.2398576 |
| PMID | 39230422 |
| OpenAlex | W4402227190 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
This study of LGBTQ+ college students highlights and amplifies the experiences of their healthy intimate relationships. College represents a pivotal time for personal and relationship development for many students, and seeing the positive ways students with historically minoritized gender and sexual identities navigate relationships has value for understanding how sexuality manifests within the current culture. Using a critical constructivist perspective and photo elicitation methods, the study includes students' narratives and visual presentations of their lived experiences thriving in healthy intimate relationships. The findings included three specific areas that supported students' thriving: self-work and self-awareness, fluidity and flexibility, and communication. These findings, and students' relationship images highlight the ways that they thrive through continual affirmative consent and responsibility to themselves and their relationships. Together, these findings provide possibility models to support imagining and educating about LGBTQ+ students' healthy intimate relationships. Findings have potential for informing trainings and resources for LGBTQ+ students, enhancing relationship education by challenging oppressive norms that influence all students, and for questioning the ways university regulations inhibit participants' agency for celebrating their intimacy
Homosexuality · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Lesbian · Male Homosexuality · Men who have sex with men · Minority stress · Photo elicitation · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sexual minority · Sociology · Transgender · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |