Identity, Sexual Identity Disclosure, and HIV Risk in Black Sexual Minority Men: A Conceptual Overview
Book Chapter
Haile, R, Padilla, MB, Parker, EA. (2016). Identity, Sexual Identity Disclosure, and HIV Risk in Black Sexual Minority Men: A Conceptual Overview
. 137-150. 10.5040/9781666986532.ch-009
Haile, R, Padilla, MB, Parker, EA. (2016). Identity, Sexual Identity Disclosure, and HIV Risk in Black Sexual Minority Men: A Conceptual Overview
. 137-150. 10.5040/9781666986532.ch-009
The impact of social stigma on health and disease has been central within the social determinants literature, in which researchers have identified social stigma as both a potential fundamental cause of health disparities and a requirement for the perpetuation of social inequalities (Parker & Aggleton, 2003; Stuber, Meyer, & Link, 2008). Moreover, the existing domestic and global public health literature suggests that there is a strong relationship between stigma and HIV-related risk and vulnerability among sexual minority men (SMM; Diaz, Ayala, Bein, Henne, & Marin, 2001; Padilla et al., 2008; Wilson & Yoshikawa, 2004). The impact of sexual stigma and its management on HIV/AIDS among black SMM has been explored. Sexual stigma is the deeply embedded ideology which devalues and deems non-normative sexual desires, behaviors, and identities invalid (Herek, Chopp, & Strohl, 2007). Similarly, stigma management techniques are described as concrete strategies that stigmatized groups adopt in order to cope with stigmatization (Goffman, 1963). Within the HIV-related literature that focuses on black SMM, some of the core sexual stigma management techniques proposed include those related to gay identity and disclosure.
