ABSTRACT
This chapter examines both in terms of how the research participants tell their stories and how they represent themselves and others in these stories, with the aim of examining the accomplishment of identity as an agentive act. It identifies the use of interrelated resources for accomplishing identity in coming-out stories. The chapter analyzes narratives selected from a set of interviews with 24 participants who might be considered ‘out’ in a binary (out vs. closeted) understanding of the coming-out process. It examines the coming-out stories of participants who had explicitly disclosed their sexuality to their parents. It explores how the participants presented themselves and others in their coming-out stories, how this related to the intersection of ethnic and sexual identities in their lives, and what this tells us about the terrain of coming out for these and other identified people or Mexican/Latinx people.
