Having come out as gay in my teens, I sought to learn as much as I could from the available literature about sexual orientation and how it relates to identity development. The chance to pursue a career in psychology, one which would allow me to work with LGBT people and influence social thought on these issues, was too exciting to pass up. Like many of my lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT)-and probably heterosexual colleagues at graduate school, my motivation to study psychology is largely personal.
LGBT graduate students who choose to pursue LGBT-…
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