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INTERVIEW-BASED REARCH ON GENR AND SEXUALY: GAY INTY
Due to creased levels of stigma, discrimatn and victimizatn Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng or Intersex (LGBTQI+) youth fac * gay qualitative research methods *
Ined, the study of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ)-parent fai grew out of femist activism and scholarship on fai that did not f the heteronormative mastream of a two generatnal (parent and child) stcture, head by a male breadwner and his emotnally sensive, homemakg wife. G., Europe, Atralia), attemptg to queer fay rearch methods by problematizg the heteronormative foundatn that has characterized much of LGBTQ fay rearch (Asta, 2018; Fish & Rsell, 2018; Goldberg, Allen, Ellawalla, & Ross, 2018; Mizielińska, Gabb, & Stasińska, 2018; Oswald, Kuvalanka, Blume, & Berkowz, 2009) and warng about the tablishment of “a new gay norm” (Moore & Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, 2013). Tensns wh Heteronormativy LGBTQ-Parent Fay RearchThe recent advanc soc-legal queer partnership and parenthood rights many parts of the world have helped to break down the homo–hetero bary and distctns between LGBTQ and hetero parent–fai.
Before the groundbreakg ethnographi of gay and lbian fay life were published, such as Krieger’s (1983) study of a lbian muny and Wton’s (1991) study of chosen kship, those wantg to study or learn about lbian and gay fai turned to anthologi of personal stori wrten by and about lbian parents (Alpert, 1988; Hansbe & Forster, 1981), for see the benefs of standardizatn, but only if they take the form of guil that are not prcriptive or signed to iron out the creativy that n e wh a cril analysis of lived experience. G., racism, sexism, homophobia) that have, at least the past, been emed too sensive, trmatic, or distasteful to rearch (see chapter “Losg a Child: Death and Hidn Loss LGBTQ-Parent Fai”).
Notable exceptns are Mizielińska and Stasińska’s (2018) mixed methods study of queer kship and chosen fai Poland, which participant observatn was a major foc, and Carrgton’s (2002) ethnography of the day-to-day life of gay and lbian upl.