OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Homosexuality is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Correlates of Homonegativity Towards Men Who Have Sex With Men Among Black Individuals in the United States	144
To What Extent are Prenatal Androgens Involved in the Development of Male Homosexuality in Humans?	24
Gendernauts in the Cistem – How Do Nonbinary People Handle Social Groups and Gender Minority Stress?	23
Relations Between Optimism-Pessimism and Loneliness in Sexually Minoritized Men: The Moderating Role of Chronicity-Based Discrimination	22
“Courting” the Hidden Curriculum: Depictions of Sexuality and Implications for Heteronormativity in ELT Materials from Taiwan	21
Lived Experiences of Older LGBTQI+ Adults Aged 60 or Older: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis	21
A Phenomenological Study of Taiwanese Lesbians Viewing Female Figures in Paintings	20
Akin to Kin: Queer Relationalities in Contemporary Family Memoir	20
Queer Urbanisms in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany: Of Towns and Villages	18
Invisible Victims: Addressing the Sexual and Health Consequences of Stealth Breeding for Brazilian Gay Men	18
Inequality and the “Universal” Gay Male Experience: Developing the Concept of Gay Essentialism	17
Does LGBTQ+ Community Connectedness Buffer Discrimination’s Indirect Effect on Generalized Anxiety Through Rejection Sensitivity in LGBTQ+ U.S. Adults?	17
Family Conflict, Physical Symptoms, and Post Traumatic Stress among Sexual Minorities during the COVID Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model	17
Sexual Orientation-Based Victimization and Internalized Homonegativity Among Latinx Sexual Minority Youth: The Moderating Effects of Social Support and School Level	17
Burden of the Fruity: Family Support and Suicide Ideation as Mediators Between Discrimination and Suicide Behavior in LGBTQ+ Malaysians	16
Social Categorization of Sexual Orientation via Verbal Cues: Evidence From a “Who Said What?” Study	16
An Exploration of Satisfaction with Mental Health Counseling Services in Western Australia Among Sexuality and Gender Diverse Youth	15
From Sex Education to Sexualities Education: Navigating the Intersectionality of Queer Communities in Italy and the Netherlands	15
Anticipated Sexual Minority Stress and Mental Health after the 2016 Presidential Election: Examining a Psychological Mediation Framework	14
Could the State Benefit from Aristophanic Comic Relief? Philosophical Perspectives on Carnal Politics in Postcolonial Uganda	14
Age Moderates the Association of Community Connectedness and Psychological Distress Among LGBTQ+ Youth and Adults	14
The Relationship Between Gender and Sexual Orientation in Academia	13
Between Privileges and Sacrifices: Heteronormativity and Turkish Nationalism in Urban Turkey	13
LGBTQ Inclusion Among Religious Congregations and Religious Leaders in the United States	13
LGBTQ Incorporated: YouTube and the Management of Diversity	13

The Impact of Contact Experience on the Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Same-Sex Parents and Their Children Among Kindergarten Teachers	13
“Why You Putting This Drug in Your Body to Fight off Something that You Don’t Have?” Perceptions About PrEP Use Among Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men in the U.S. South	12
The Pathways to Join, Engage in, and Quit Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE): A Qualitative Study of Sexual Minority Individuals who Self-Initiated SOCE in Hong Kong	12
Digital Platforms as Equivocal Health Promotion: Examining the Mental Health of 2SLGBTQ+ People Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
“You Have to Validate It”: Experiences of Female Sexual Minority Student-Athletes	11
The Dynamic Identity Formation of Sexual Minority Adolescents: A Constructivist Grounded Theory of Adversity and Resilience	11
Etiology Beliefs About Sexual and Gender Minority Youth (EB-SGM): Validation with College Students, Community Adults, and Pediatric Healthcare Providers	11
“Even God Gave up on Them”: A Deconstruction of Homosexuality Discourses in Zimbabwe’s Online Locales	11
Families We’re Born With: The Shifting Role of Family Influences in the Identity Journeys of Queer and Trans Emerging Adults of Color	11
Alternative Media and the Queer Feminist Community: The Lesbian Print Magazine in China	11
Sexual Minority Mothers: A Dyadic Exploration of Stigma, Identity, Support, and Parental Wellbeing	11
Emotions, Agency, and Materiality: Embodiment of Homophobic Discrimination Amongst Mexican LGBTQ+ Youth	10
Gender Diversity and Sport: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Increasing Inclusivity *Gender Diversity and Sport: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Increasing Inclusivi*	10
Student-Led Webinar to Support LGBTQ+ Students Applying to Medical School During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
An Exploration of LGBTQA+ Young People’s Coping Strategies When Navigating Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors	10
Myths and Reality About Confronting Anti-Gay Prejudice: Who Confronts and Why (Not)?	10
Psychometric Exploration of the Swedish Translation of the Sexual Orientation Microaggressions Scale (SOMS), and a Commentary on the Validity of the Construct of Microaggressions	10
Watching Televised Counter-Stereotypes Alone or with Mom: Studying the Effects on Preadolescents’ Gender Attitudes and Beliefs	10
A Film Review of Mates: Expanding Perspectives on Sexuality Exploration	9
Queer Peer Crowds on Campus: LGBT Crowd Affiliation as a Critical Correlate of College Students’ Loneliness, Academic Well-Being, & Stress	9
Teaching Nigerian Heterosexual University Students About Homophobia, Heterosexual Privilege, Anti-LGB Oppression and the Need to Promote Social Justice and Social Inclusion for LGB Persons	9
Gay Fatherhood Experiences and Challenges Through the Lens of Minority Stress Theory	9
Linking Public Opinion Perception, Minority, and Stigma – An Integrated Model of Hiding Male Same-Sex Affection in Public	9
Towards a Situated Understanding of Vulnerability — An Analysis of Ugandan LGBT+ Exposure to Hate Crimes in Digital Spaces	9
Identifying Predictors of Anal HPV Status in HPV-Vaccinated MSM: A Machine Learning Approach	9
Homoerotic Masculinity Through Chemsex. A Cultural Analysis of Substance Uses in Gay Men of Mexico	8
Decision-Making for HIV AIDS Prevention: Altruism and the Moral Norm	8
‘I Am they.’ Non-Binary Representation in Television Fiction as a Manifestation of Social Conceptions	8
Evaluation of the Three National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Other Sexual and Gender Minority (LGBTQ+)-Competent Provider Directories in the United States	8
Georgina Somerset, British Intersex History, and the I in LGBTQI	7
Exploring Transgender and Gender Diverse Young Adult Tobacco Use	7
Transgender Women in India: Neocolonialism, Stigmatization and Discrimination	7
Navigating Queer Narratives: Student Teachers’ Perspectives on LGBT+ Picture Books	7
Homoerotic Photography and the White Gay Imaginary in Apartheid South Africa	7
Young Hearts: A Film Review	7
Gender-Related Medical Experiences of Youth Who Have Detranstioned	7
University Student Attitudes Regarding Answering Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity Questions on University Application Forms	7
Gay Dating Apps in China: Do They Alleviate or Exacerbate Loneliness? The Serial Mediation Effect of Perceived and Internalized Sexuality Stigma	7
Well-Being as a Function of LGBTQIA+ Campus Climate and Identity: A Case Study at a Non-Affirming Religiously Affiliated University	7
Minority Stress and Resilience in Student Experiences of Education	7
Ally as an Emerging Critical Orientation: Performing Praxis-Oriented Ally Subjectivity	7
The Double Role of Religiosity on Subjective Well-Being of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals: A Moderated Mediation Model	7
Mitigating the Impact of Religiously Based Family Expectations on Depression Among Sexual and Gender Minorities: The Role of Authenticity	7
Fantasy Worlds, Real-Life Impact: The Benefits of RPGs for Transgender Identity Exploration	7
Job-Seeking Experiences of Trans Adults in South Korea	7
Threads of Diversity: Exploring Clothing Experiences of India’s LGBTQ Community	7
Sex Work Patterns Among Transgender and Gender Diverse People: A Latent Class Analysis	6
Do Spirituality, Rurality, and LGBTQ Support Increase Outness and Quality of Health in Gay and Bisexual Men?	6
“There is LGBTQ Life Beyond the Big City”: Discourses, Representations and Experiences in Two Medium-Sized Spanish Cities	6
Chinese Homosexuals in a Utopianised World: Active Involvement, Strategic Interactions, and Contingent Engagement with Practical Life	6

Therapist Multicultural Orientation: Client Perceptions of Cultural Humility, LGB Identity, and the Working Alliance	6
Whose Rights are Civil Rights? Evaluating Group Threat as an Explanation for Racial Differences in Attitudes Toward Same-Gender Sexuality	6
Sexual and Gender Minority Differences in Likelihood of Being a Caregiver and Levels of Caregiver Strain in a Sample of Older Adults	6
“Escaping the Gender Prison”—Transgender Men’s Experience Before and After Hysterectomy: A Qualitative Study	6
Substance Use, Parental and Teacher Support, and Mental Health Outcomes Among Latinx Sexual and Gender Minority Youth	6
Where the Great Cities Go, Do Other Cities Follow? Divergent Trajectories of LGBTQ Organizational Growth Across the United States During the AIDS Crisis	6
The Anxiety Factor: Moral Traditionalism, Interpersonal Contact Diversity and Support for Transgender Candidates and Rights	6
Authenticity, Well-Being, and Minority Stress in LGB Individuals: A Scoping Review	6
The Binary Order of Things: A Discursive Study of Nursing Students’ Talk on Providing, and Learning About, LGBT Patient Care	6
Queer Reflections on AI: Uncertain Intelligences	6
Attachment and Emotion Regulation: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of Iranian and Dutch Gay Men	6
Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Wellbeing of LGBTQ+ Individuals in Moldova: A Mixed Methods Analysis	6
Queer Relationalities, Impossible: The Politics of Homonationalism and Failure in LOGO’s Fire Island	6
Association Between Egalitarian Gender Attitudes and Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage: Findings from a National Representative Survey	6
Gendered Trajectories to Tolerance: Men’s and Women’s Changing Attitudes toward Homosexuality in Japan, 1981–2019	6
Identity Processes and Psychological Wellbeing Upon Recall of a Significant “Coming Out” Experience in Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People	6
Writing About Queer Cinema Differently from the Others: A Review of Anders als die Andern.	6
Celebrating Diversity: How Punk-Identified Characters Challenge Gender Normativity in Literature	6
“ Expectation is Always that the Practitioner Might Not Be Okay with Queerness ”: Experiences of LGBTQ+ With the Healthcare System in Saskatchewan, Canada	5
Homosexual/Heterosexual: First Print Uses of the Terms by Daniel von Kászony (1868–1871)	5
Sexual Orientation Change Efforts Among LGBT+ People of Kerala: Prevalence, Correlates, and Mental Health Aspects	5
LGBTQ Voices in Thai High Schools: Shaping Self-Expression and Empowerment	5
Psychometric Evaluation of the CommTrans Questionnaire	5
Loud, Proud, and All Around Hilarious: Queer Humor in Contemporary Graphic Novels as a Method of Interpersonal Affirmation and Awareness	5
Mentoring LGBT Students: Perspectives from Volunteers at a Taiwanese Buddhist University	5
Queerness is a Particular Liability: Feeling Rules in College and University LGBTQ Centers	5
Trans and Non-Binary Latin American Migrants in London: An Intersectional Analysis of Migration and Psychological Well-Being	5
“Family Is the Beginning but Not the End”: Intergenerational LGBTQ Chosen Family, Social Support, and Health in a Vietnamese American Community Organization	5
The Intersectional Influence of Experienced Stigma on Clinically Significant Depressive Symptoms Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men	5
Growing Old in the Bible Belt: Resources for Aging LGBT Adults Living in the South	5
A Commentary on Jakob Svensson & Cecilia Strand (2023). The Promise of Double Living. Understanding Young People with Same-Sex Desires in Contemporary Kampala. Journal of Homosexuality. https://do	5
Expanding Intersectionality: Rethinking Inclusive Sexualities Education for Queer Multi-Minority Identities	5
Clashing Decolonial and Sociocultural Factors: Revisiting Palestinian Queer Liberation Using the Events of Summer 2019	5
Gay Dating Apps Usage, Body Dissatisfaction, and Disordered Eating in Chinese Young Gay Men	5
Reflecting on the Significance of the Feminist Standpoint Epistemology in Researching the Experiences of Black Gay Men Who Work in Heteronormative and Patriarchal Male-Dominated Workplaces	5
‘It’s Just Safer When I Don’t Go There’: Trans People’s Locker Room Membership and Participation in Physical Activity	5
Wielding Gay Men’s Agency: Empirical Evidence from HEIs in the Philippines	5
“A Straight Friend Hasn’t Walked in These Shoes”: The Role of Shared Identity in LGBTQIA+ Informal Mental Health Support	5
Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: The Limits of Human Rights in Africa	5
A Double-Edged Sword: Dual-Identity Centrality and the Health of Asian American Sexual Minority Individuals	5
When Your Sibling is Trans Too: How LGBTQ Siblings Help LGBTQ Youth Navigate Cisnormativity and Heteronormativity in the Family	5
LGBTQ+ Microaggressions in Health Care: Piloting an Observation Framework in a Standardized Patient Assessment	5
Mental Health and Life Satisfaction on Chilean Gay Men and Lesbian Women: The Role of Perceived Sexual Stigma, Internalized Homophobia, and Community Connectedness	5
What is Known About LGBTQ Youth and Exclusionary Discipline? A Scoping Review	4
Kink-Oriented People and Exogenous Oppressions: Understanding Mental Health and Related Service Use in a Rural Context	4
Parental Experiences of Coming Out: From “Un-doing Family Bonds” to “Family Generativity”	4
Non-Heteronormative Sexual Orientations at Work: Disclosure Dynamics and the Negotiation of Boundaries Between Lesbian and Gay Employees and Their Co-workers	4
A Cross-Sectional Survey Study on Homophobia Among Medical, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Other Health Sciences Students	4
Police Harassment and Violence Against Transgender & Gender Diverse Sex Workers in the United States	4
A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of “The Quest,” A Health and Well-Being Intervention for British-Based Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Gay and Bisexual Men	4
Absence and Distortion in the Self-Representation of LGBTQ+ Narratives	4
Flora’s Space: Archiving Queer Love Through Letters and Affections	4
Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century *Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century* , by Pretsell, Douglas	4
The Relations Between Self-Warmth, Self-Coldness, Internalized Heterosexism, and Depressive Symptoms Among Sexual Minority Men: A Moderated-Mediation Model	4
Efficacy of Artistic Actions in Raising Awareness of Gender Equality and Sexual Diversity in University Contexts	4
Leaving a Mark and Passing the Torch: Intended Legacies of Older Lesbian and Gay Spanish Activists	4
“As a Trans Person You Don’t Live. You Merely Try to Survive and Apologize Every Day for Who You Are” – Discrimination Experiences Among Trans Individuals in Greece”	4
Invisible Stories: A Phenomenological Study of Bi and Trans Parent Experiences Within Elementary Schools in the Southwestern United States	4
Internalized Sexual Orientation Stigma and Mental Health in a Religiously Diverse Sample of Gay and Bisexual Men in Lebanon	4
Intraminority Gay Community Stress and Coping Responses Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Taiwan	4
Who Has a Better Auditory Gaydar? Sexual Orientation Categorization by Heterosexual and Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People	4
Correction	4
“Dancing Steps of #WeToo Resistance”: Choreography of Masculinity, Sexuality, and Violence on an Israeli Stage	4
Beyond Translation: Exploring the Stigmatization of Rainbow Works Translation Under Frame Theory	4
Wired Sex Assemblages Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: Sexualized Drug Use, Hookup Apps, and HIV Service Provision	4
“I am not a Robot, I am Asexual”: A Qualitative Critique of Allonormative Discourses of Ace and Aro Folks as Robots, Aliens, Monsters	4
Discrimination and Rejection: The Effects of Ethnic and Sexuality-Based Discrimination Against Latino Gay and Bisexual Men	4
Health Communication Preferences of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individuals – Development and First Psychometric Evaluation of the CommTrans Questionnaire	4
Gender Differences in Anticipated but Not Behavioral Confrontation of Heterosexist Comments	4
“A Space Where Queer Is Normalized”: The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW	4
Detection Rates of Mental Health Problems Among Sexual Minorities in Mainland China: A Meta-Analysis	4
Art, Media, and Fashion: Negotiating Queerness and Catholicism Through Depictions of Saint Sebastian, From the 15 ^th Century to the Present	4
Emerging Adult LGB+ Romantic Relationships: Narratives about Met and Unmet Relationship Needs	4
Illustrations of Benevolent and Hostile Heterosexism in LGBTQ+ People’s Lives	4
Self-Disclosure of Loneliness by LGBTQ+ Twitter Users During COVID-19	4
The Slovenian Armed Forces Faces the Challenge of Inclusion of Their Homosexual Members	4