TWENTY YEARS AND STILL IN THE DARK - CONTENT-ANALYSIS OF ARTICLES PERTAINING TO GAY, LESBIAN, AND BISEXUAL ISSUES IN MARRIAGE AND FAMILY-THERAPY JOURNALS

To what extent do marriage and family therapy journals address gay, le sbian, and bisexual issues and how does this coverage compare to allie d fields? To answer these questions, a content analysis was conducted on articles published in the marriage and family therapy literature fr om 1975 to 1995. Of the 13,217 articles examined in 17 journals, only 77 (.006%) focused on gay, lesbian, and/or bisexual issues or used sex ual orientation as a variable. Findings support the contention that ga y, lesbian, and bisexual issues are ignored by marriage and family the rapy researchers and scholars.