What is it about?
This article is about openly gay men who have been elected to undergraduate student government in higher education. This article explores their experiences with coming out, and more so, with being out as openly gay and elected in this way of student leadership.
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Why is it important?
This study is important as it illuminates the lived experiences of openly gay men in elected student government; thus, helping higher education practitioners better understand the experiences of gay college men, and gay college men who are elected to student government.
Perspectives
I really enjoyed writing this article, which is the first article from my larger dissertation study. It is my hope that we can better understand this phenomenon through this and continued research.
Michael Goodman
University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions
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This page is a summary of: Openly gay undergraduate men in student government: Out, visible, and elected., Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, January 2021, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/dhe0000273.
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