THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF COMING OUT IN COLLEGE - EXPERIENCES OF MALE-STUDENTS

This article explores the sense of solidarity and group struggle that emerges from the coming-out experiences of gay and bisexual college me n situated at a large research university. Many of these students adop t the term queer as a self-identifier and to create their own represen tations of what it means to be gay. The struggle for self-representati on is explained in terms of the politics of language and identity.