Faderman L
J Homosex. 1984 Winter;10(3-4):85-95.
The three-stage progression toward homosexual identity that Minton and McDonald (1983/1984) delineate in Bisexual and Homosexual Identities (De Cecco & Shively, eds., 1983/1984) is generally not applicable to women who have come to lesbianism through the radical feminist movement of the past 15 years. Their progression toward a lesbian identity was in an order roughly the reverse of what Minton and McDonald describe: Through the movement they came to understand that society's norms can be critically evaluated and that heterosexuality was detrimental to women's freedom, often before they had homosexual genital experience. The "egocentric" stage for these women may have been no different from that of heterosexuals. They may have escaped the guilt and isolation associated with the "sociocentric" stage because they first viewed themselves as lesbian in the context of a supportive social group. There is also some evidence to suggest that many premovement lesbians made their decision to identify as homosexual on the basis of their political views about heterosexuality. Thus, they too may not have experienced Minton and McDonald's three-stage progression toward identity.
明顿和麦克唐纳（1983/1984）在《双性恋与同性恋身份认同》（德切科和希利主编，1983/1984）中所描述的同性恋身份认同的三阶段发展过程，通常不适用于那些在过去15年激进女权运动中成为女同性恋者的女性。她们向女同性恋身份的发展顺序大致与明顿和麦克唐纳所描述的相反：通过这场运动，她们开始明白社会规范是可以受到批判性评估的，而且异性恋对女性自由有害，这往往发生在她们有同性恋性行为体验之前。这些女性的“以自我为中心”阶段可能与异性恋者并无不同。她们可能摆脱了与“以社会为中心”阶段相关的内疚和孤立感，因为她们最初是在一个支持性社会群体的背景下将自己视为女同性恋者的。也有一些证据表明，许多运动前的女同性恋者是基于她们对异性恋的政治观点而决定认同自己为同性恋者的。因此，她们也可能没有经历明顿和麦克唐纳所描述的身份认同的三阶段发展过程。
