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R Cain

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PubMed1991

Stigma management and gay identity development.

Disclosure of homosexuality is now generally viewed in the professional literature as more desirable than secrecy; disclosure is often seen as evidence of a healthy gay identity, whereas secrecy has come to be viewed as socially and psychologically problematic. By drawing on data from an interview study of 38 gay men in Montreal, this article shows that decisions concerning disclosure and secrecy are related to a variety of situational and relational factors that are largely distinct from gay identity development. It is argued that the new models of identity formation fail to recognize adequately the social factors that shape the ways gay men manage information concerning their sexual preferences. Conceptual and clinical implications of new normative views of disclosure and secrecy are discussed.

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PubMed1985

Exposure of DNA to methyl mercury results in an increase in the rate of its transcription by RNA polymerase II.

Double-stranded DNA which was exposed to methyl mercury at concentrations of 1 mM and above, and purified by ethanol precipitation and dialysis, was transcribed at a higher rate by RNA polymerase II than was control DNA. The rate of transcription of single-stranded DNA was not affected by similar exposure to methyl mercury. The higher rate of transcription of methyl mercury-treated double-stranded DNA appears to result from a decreased Km of the enzyme for this DNA. This does not appear to result from extensive denaturation, nor from formation of a large number of single-stranded breaks in the DNA.

Bacteriophage lambda↗