Horne Sharon G, Levitt Heidi M, Sweeney Kristin Kay, Puckett Julia A, Hampton Martavius L
a Department of Counseling and School Psychology , University of Massachusetts Boston.
J Sex Res. 2015;52(7):807-20. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2014.901285. Epub 2014 Jul 3.
Gay families are constructed support networks that gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals of color form, often in response to societal marginalization and rejection from biological families. Research on these family structures has been scarce, with little focus on the experience of African American gay family networks in the South. The current grounded theory qualitative study focused on the experiences of 10 African American male and transgender individuals between the ages of 18 and 29 from gay families in the Mid-South, and explored the ways these families addressed safe-sex issues and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk prevention. Results revealed that families can play a role in either increasing HIV risk (e.g., ignoring HIV issues, encouraging such unsafe behaviors as exchanging sex for money or drugs, stigmatizing HIV-positive people) or decreasing it (e.g., intensive, family-level prevention efforts at safe-sex practices and family support for HIV treatment adherence). The potential of these family networks for HIV prevention and adherence efforts is considered.
同性恋家庭是有色人种同性恋、双性恋和跨性别者构建的支持网络，他们形成这样的家庭往往是为了应对社会边缘化以及来自原生家庭的排斥。对这些家庭结构的研究一直很稀缺，很少关注南方非裔美国同性恋家庭网络的经历。当前这项扎根理论定性研究聚焦于来自中南部同性恋家庭的10名年龄在18至29岁之间的非裔美国男性和跨性别者的经历，并探讨了这些家庭解决安全性行为问题和预防人类免疫缺陷病毒（HIV）风险的方式。结果显示，家庭在增加HIV风险（例如，忽视HIV问题、鼓励诸如以性换钱或毒品等不安全行为、污名化HIV阳性者）或降低HIV风险（例如，在安全性行为方面进行深入的家庭层面预防努力以及家庭对HIV治疗依从性的支持）方面都可能发挥作用。本文考虑了这些家庭网络在HIV预防和依从性努力方面的潜力。
