id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_vv4z6lswyjgjpigkhzxf6f3dbe Nic M. Weststrate The rise and fall of gay: A cultural-historical approach to gay identity development 2010 17 .pdf application/pdf 11395 750 57 identities such as those of gays and lesbians, whose isolation from the canonical narrative of sexuality Participants (N�251) reported (1) a memory of a cultural event relevant to their reported more personal memories (e.g., coming out), suggesting that homosexual identities have become narrative construction of personal identity is an narrative identity (see also Fivush, 2001; Pasupathi, 2001; Thorne, 2000). the current study, change in gay identity over time narratives from gay individuals who came of age in potential master narratives for gay identity, depending in part on the cultural situation in which silencing the gay narrative. event or period that has influenced the participant's gay or lesbian identity. of how cultural events shape personal identities there is no clear master narrative for gay identity millennial gay cohort, do not share cultural the status of voice and silence in gay identity and communal narratives of gay identity. ./cache/work_vv4z6lswyjgjpigkhzxf6f3dbe.pdf ./txt/work_vv4z6lswyjgjpigkhzxf6f3dbe.txt