Male homosexuality and lesbianism in the academic production of psychology: A systematic bibliographic review between 2012-2016

Abstract

This paper intends to identify previous academic research on the Psychology as a discipline of male homosexuality and the lesbianism of Latin America, Spain and Portugal during 2012-2016. We used databases: VHL, Dialnet, PsycINFO, Redalyc, Scopus and Web of Science to carry out this review. We identified 80 articles from Spain, 63 from Portugal and 289 from Latin America. After controlling for cooperative works, we find 420 articles that fit our review. We classify the topics into 12 categories to make the research approaches apparent, which are mainly concentrated in these categories: attitude; health; family and love relationships and friendship; gender and identity; equality, rights, social support and education. By continuously investigating male homosexuality and lesbianism without questioning heterosexuality, we find that psychology figures the sexual (a)normality of the society when the effects of scientific knowledge on everyday life are taken into account.