Visibility Management: Identity, Privacy, Disclosure, and Safety
Visibility management is the process of controlling how visible an identity is across different settings through disclosure, concealment, privacy, presentation, and selective openness.
Passing Privilege: Perception, Safety, and LGBTQ+ Identity
Passing privilege is the social advantage someone may receive when others perceive them as belonging to a dominant group, such as cisgender or heterosexual.
Allonormativity: Sexual Attraction as a Social Expectation
Allonormativity is the assumption that everyone naturally experiences sexual attraction and should want sexual relationships or become sexually active.
Identity Concealment: Privacy, Minority Stress, and LGBTQ+ Identity
Identity concealment is the act of hiding or limiting disclosure of a personal identity, often to protect privacy or reduce risks of stigma, rejection, or discrimination.
Identity Disclosure: Privacy, Coming Out, and Personal Choice
Identity disclosure is the act of sharing personal identity information, such as sexual orientation or gender identity, with others while balancing privacy, safety, and personal choice.
Internalized Acephobia: Stigma, Self-Doubt, and Ace Acceptance
Internalized acephobia occurs when asexual or ace-spectrum people absorb negative beliefs about asexuality and apply those stereotypes or judgments to themselves.
Coming In: LGBTQ+ Self-Recognition and Identity Acceptance
Coming in is an inward LGBTQ+ process of recognizing, exploring, or accepting one’s own sexual orientation or gender identity, often before any public disclosure.
Internalized Biphobia: Stigma, Erasure, and Bisexual Self-Acceptance
Internalized biphobia occurs when bisexual or bi+ people absorb negative beliefs about bisexuality and apply those stereotypes or judgments to themselves or others.
Internalized Homophobia: Stigma, Shame, and Sexual Self-Acceptance
Internalized homophobia occurs when sexual-minority people absorb negative beliefs about same-sex attraction and apply those beliefs to themselves or others.
Minority Stress: Stigma, Discrimination, Identity, and Well-Being
Minority stress is the added stress caused by stigma, discrimination, rejection, concealment pressure, and unequal treatment experienced by marginalized groups.