Table 1.
Distribution of self-reported sexual and gender identification.
Table 2.
Summary of correlations, reliabilities, means, and standard deviations for scores on scales for PDA and minority stress in Study 1.
Fig 1.
Perception of LGBTQ* minority stress by LGBTQ* and Hetero/Cis participants in the contexts of a campus and a city.
Error bars represent +/– 1 SEM.
Fig 2.
Reported PDA enjoyment by LGBTQ* and Hetero/Cis participants in the contexts of a campus and a city.
Error bars represent +/– 1 SEM.
Table 3.
Summary of correlations, reliabilities, means, and standard deviations for scores on scales for PDA and minority stress in Study 2.
Fig 3.
Perception of LGBTQ* minority stress by LGBTQ* and Hetero/Cis participants in the contexts of a campus and a city in Study 2.
Error bars represent +/– 1 SEM.
Fig 4.
Reported enjoyment of PDA by LGBTQ* and Hetero/Cis participants in the contexts of a campus and a city in Study 2.
Error bars represent +/– 1 SEM.
Table 4.
Summary of correlations, reliabilities, means, and standard deviations for the physical affection and minority stress scales in Study 3.
Fig 5.
Reported LGBTQ* minority stress for the contexts of a campus and a city in Study 3, with perceived danger, marginalization, and the SMSS as different outcome measures.
Error bars represent +/– 1 SEM.
Fig 6.
Reported enjoyment and frequency of physical affection by same-sex and different-sex participants in the contexts of a campus, a city, and a private setting in Study 3.
Error bars represent +/– 1 SEM.
Fig 7.
A within-participants mediation analysis in which minority stress mediates the effect of context on PDA.
Context is coded 0 = campus and 1 = city. * p < .05. *** p < .001.
Fig 8.
A step-by-step guide to thematic analysis as defined by Braun and Clarke [43].
Table 5.
Themes on negotiating PDA in different public contexts.