id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ddgr7wt2drgtxlampzdjhuekfq Eric Swank Region, Social Identities, and Disclosure Practices as Predictors of Heterosexist Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities in the United States 2013 21 .pdf application/pdf 8938 1726 66 Region, Social Identities, and Disclosure Practices as Predictors of Heterosexist Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities in the United States employment discrimination than urban LGBs. Small town LGBs also encountered additional amounts of housing discrimination and were more often chased by strangers compared with urban sexual minorities. explores the links between sexual minorities' place of residency and their exposure to heterosexist discrimination. Findings from these studies highlight hostile rural communities that forced sexual minorities into silence, social isolation, and fear of hate crimes. sexual minorities were less likely to experience event-based forms of discrimination and victimization, such as physical or sexual assaults, because of their sexual identity (Berrill 1990; Meyer, Schwartz, and Frost 2008), while others When at work, lesbians often reported greater workplace discrimination than gay men (Ragins and Cornwell 2001), but differences in salary of sexual identity disclosure on enacted stigma across rural and urban locations. This study examined sexual minorities' experiences of heterosexist discrimination as it related to spatial, sexual identity disclosure, race, class, and ./cache/work_ddgr7wt2drgtxlampzdjhuekfq.pdf ./txt/work_ddgr7wt2drgtxlampzdjhuekfq.txt