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  1. Whose “Coming Out“? Patterns of Coming Out Among Non-Heterosexual Males in Bulgaria

    Article • Sexuality Research and Social Policy, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shaban Darakchi

  2. Doing “Dirty Work” in Academia: Personal and Institutional Experiences of Researchers Working on LGBTQI + Topics in Europe

    Article • Sexuality Research and Social Policy, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shaban Darakchi

  3. Making Gender and Sexuality Studies Illegal: Heteronationalism, Anti-gender Mobilization, and the Neoliberal "Utopian" Gaze in Bulgaria, 2018–2023

    Article • WSQ Women s Studies Quarterly, March 2024, Project Muse

    Shaban Darakchi

  4. “A Community… Sounds Like Communism”: Notions of Gay Community and “Community Belonging Contradiction” Among Bulgarian Non-Heterosexual Males

    Article • Journal of Homosexuality, November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Shaban Darakchi

  5. “Coming Out To Yourself”: Reflections On Early-Years Sexual Identity Formation Among Different Generations of Bulgarian Non-Heterosexual Males

    Article • Sexuality & Culture, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shaban Darakchi

  6. Bulgarian LGBTQI movement: Generations, identifications, and tendencies

    Article • Sexualities, March 2021, SAGE Publications

    Shaban Darakchi

  7. “The Western Feminists Want to Make Us Gay”: Nationalism, Heteronormativity, and Violence Against Women in Bulgaria in Times of “Anti-gender Campaigns”

    Article • Sexuality & Culture, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shaban Darakchi

  8. Muslim Marriages: Intergenerational Differences in the Notions of Marriage among the Bulgarian Pomaks

    Article • Marriage & Family Review, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Shaban Darakchi

  9. Emergence and Development of LGBTQ Studies in Post-Socialist Bulgaria

    Article • Journal of Homosexuality, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Shaban Darakchi

  10. Gender, religion, and identity: Modernization of gender roles among the Bulgarian Muslims (Pomaks)

    Article • Women s Studies International Forum, September 2018, Elsevier

    Shaban Darakchi

  11. Dynamics in the Notions of Sexuality Among Three Generations of Bulgarian Muslims

    Article • Sexuality & Culture, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shaban Darakchi