ABSTRACT
Dualistic thinking has spawned a further set of binaries onto those with lesbian and gay identities through pathologization and criminalization: the good versus the bad "homosexual". These binaries and dualisms are reproduced further in the research on lesbians' and gay men's lives, leading to unresolved tensions and polarized positions around pathologization. The discursive analysis, which drew on positioning theory, also allowed a deeper understanding and interpretation of the silences and contradictions in people's accounts, which mirrored their silences in their mental health care encounters. Interpretation of data (about silencing, nondisclosure, and being pathologized) through the discursive analysis led to a clearer understanding of what was at stake. The chapter claims to have straddled epistemological divides and produced a bricolage through mixed methods and interpretation of the data through different lenses.
