![]() ![]() Are these “typical” sexual-minorities? Might their gender inversion have caused them to self-identify as gay/lesbian and to have disclosed this fact? Could gays/lesbians who are not out by choice or design be identified as gay by raters? We know that men who concealed their homosexuality were perceived by strangers as more likely to be straight (Tskhay & Rule, online). ![]() For example, the gay photographs used in gaydar research are taken from “out” individuals (on dating websites, Facebook, Craigslist). Are the sexual-minority individuals we recruit as research subjects and the photos we use to depict them representative of sexual-minority individuals in general? I can’t answer this question, and it’s a difficult one to determine because we don’t know what it means to recruit “random” gays and lesbians, especially because many might not identify as such (e.g., not aware they’re gay, are not sufficiently out to participate in gay research, or don’t want to give us their data).
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