ABSTRACT
Just as human lives have many components that influence identities, any understanding of non-heterosexual student identities draws from several areas of scholastic research. In this chapter, I outline four areas of research that inform my understanding. In some ways, the narratives of the men I present in this study are snapshots of campus life over five decades, fitting into that category. But just as frames require material (data—which I offer in chapters 3 through 7), tools are needed to construct a frame. These works frame my thinking about what is known—or not—about the lives of these students.
