Table 2.

Determinants of Concealment (N=10)

Determinant	Participant Endorsements	Participant Recommendations	Participants who both endorsed and recommended	Quotations
Valuation of Societal Acceptance	2	–	–	“I just don’t like to let people down… I want people to um, to be, to look at me and say ‘hey he’s doin’ right,’ and say ‘hey he’s doin’ good.’”—Participant 9
Insufficient Support System	–	3	–	“If you have nobody behind you after, it’s going to be a really lonely experience which nobody should go through”—Participant 8
Dependence on Family	2	2	–	“If you have a family where you know, they’re gonna emancipate you or whatever… I would, I personally wouldn’t, I’d rather stay with my family.”—Participant 1
Not Ready	1	1	–	“I’m not ready for nobody to know so I can’t be seen or hangin’ with somebody like that.”—Participant 5
Discomfort with Identity	2	–	–	“I wasn’t comfortable with myself, I wasn’t, I mean it was, you know, during a time where I was just like, ‘I don’t know if it’s…right? wrong? I should do it, I shouldn’t do it?’”—Participant 1
Safety Concerns	2	2	1	“You have a lot of negative people in the streets and you have to be careful who you tell things to because people plot every day.”—Participant 7
Stigmatizing Individual	4	–	–	“You don’t come out to people that like ‘oh look at him, he walk like he gay’ and stuff like, no. Them will be the people that bring you down.”—Participant 5
Trustworthiness of other Individual	5	7	5	“If I can tell that you at the party, and you’re trying to get everybody attention, and you tryin’ to be nosy and you come sit next to me on …You will not know my business, not even one time.” – Participant 10
Conversion therapy	1	–	–	“I was lying too…But it was like, what am I supposed to do? You’re bringing me in, you’re sitting in this room, you just invited into this room and you’re gonna talk to me”—Participant 1