Interview-Based Research on Gender and Sexuality: Gay Identity

Abstract

In this case, I describe my immersion into interview-based research as a social psychologist. I use my doctoral thesis, carried out in the Department of Psychology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, as an excuse to explain the importance of subjectivity and interviews in health research with sexual and social minorities. I also discuss the epistemological (or how it is that we come to construct knowledge as researchers and social individuals) and methodological implications behind the project and land on the importance of interviews to question hegemonic knowledge on the concepts of “health,” “sanity,” and “disease.”

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