Issues related to coming out

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Understanding Socio Cultural Context Of
Counseling MSMs Addressing Dual Realities
Priti Prabhughate, Counseling Head, Vivek Raj
Anand, Murugesan S. The Humsafar Trust Mumbai,
India humsafar_at_vsnl.com, priti23_at_gmail.com
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COLLEAGUES
NEIGHBOURS
FAMILY
MSM
DIFFERENT FRIENDS
NEED OF PARTNER
CRUISING
RELATIONSHIPS
SUB IDENTITIES
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ISSUES FAMILY FRIENDS

• Helping families, friends to understand and
  accept sexual orientation.
• Preparing family/ friends to deal with new
  relationships.
• Helping families/ friends reconcile with lost
  hopes / desires (e.g. marriage).

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ISSUES INDIVIDUAL

• Defining newer roles/ expectations for the family
  and the individual.
• Helping the individual understand and accept his
  sexual orientation
• Helping the client deal with dual relationship
  especially when the client is married to a female

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ISSUES INDIVIDUALContd

• Helping the person to assess options as to
  
• Whether he wants to retain the line that
  separates homosexual world and heterosexual
  world closed
• - Let the line become dotted so that existence of
  both the worlds can be shared
• - Or the client wants to remove the line and make
  his Two worlds One

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ISSUES INDIVIDUALContd

• Providing skills to execute decisions like being
  assertive, negotiation skills, refusal skills.
• Dealing with issues in relationships.
• Dealing with loneliness.
• Dealing with problems of guilt and shame.

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Our Support

• National AIDS Control Organization (NACO)
• Mumbai District AIDS Control Society (MDACS)
• United States Agency for International Agency
  (USAID)
• Family Health International (FHI)
• Implementing Prevention, Care and Treatment
  Project (IMPACT)