The Bell and Weinberg study: future priorities for research on homosexuality

The Bell and Weinberg Homosexualities study attempts to subject important prior studies on homosexuality to systematic large-sample retests and also to break new ground in our positive understanding of homosexuality. In this article, defects in prior studies are surveyed, and then the adequacy of Bell and Weinberg's work is subjected to methodological evaluation. Issues discussed include the validity of the MMPI Mf scale, questions of sample representativeness, whether "straights" can do adequate research on homosexuality, differences in heterosexual and homosexual sexuality, the role of subculture acculturation in homosexual psychological adjustment, and the use of cluster-analysis to generate typologies of homosexualities.