The negotiation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) identities while navigating between LGBTQ+ and cis-heterodominant cultural contexts may parallel some processes observed in acculturation experiences within communities of color. 14 LGBTQ+ emerging adults (20–25 years) located within the United States participated in semi-structured individual interviews and focus groups aimed at exploring sexual identity negotiation. Findings yielded three major themes regarding negotiating sexual identity within context: 1) Awareness of Context, 2) Negotiation Behaviors (i.e., “Having a Foot in Both”; “Move it to the Back-burner”; Negotiating Identities within a Saliency Hierarchy; Cis-Heteronormative Scripts and Straight-Passing; Disclosure Methods), and 3) Acculturative Stress During Identity Negotiation. Using an interpretative phenomenological approach, the present study yielded the concept of contextual navigation to help explain the on-going adaptive process of negotiating one’s sexual identity across various U.S. sociocultural contexts. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

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上下文导航：走向在上下文中协商性身份的整体概念化

女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别和酷儿 (LGBTQ+) 身份的协商，同时在 LGBTQ+ 和顺式非主流文化背景之间导航，可能与在有色人种社区内的文化适应经历中观察到的一些过程相似。位于美国的 14 名 LGBTQ+ 新兴成年人（20-25 岁）参加了旨在探索性身份协商的半结构化个人访谈和焦点小组。研究结果产生了关于在上下文中协商性身份的三个主要主题：1) 对上下文的认识，2) 协商行为（即“两者都有立足点”；“将其移到次要位置”；在显着层次结构中协商身份；以及Cis-Heteronormative Scripts and Straight-Passing; Disclosure Methods)，以及 3) 身份协商过程中的文化适应压力。本研究使用解释性现象学方法，产生了语境导航的概念，以帮助解释在各种美国社会文化背景下协商一个人的性身份的持续适应过程。讨论了对研究和实践的影响。