Mental Illness and the Queer Community

For my next paper I want to focus on mental illness and the queer community. I will use the ideas brought forth by McCruer and Samuels in their articles about invisible disability. I would like to explore the intersectionaly of both of these "invisible" identities. I plan on doing online research to find personal narratives of coming out as LGBTQ and/or coming out with a mental illness. I plan on using a narrative of a queer student surviving sexual assualt at Bryn Mawr (http://www.autostraddle.com/on-being-a-queer-survivor-144496 ) in conjunction with Anne's On Being Transminded article. I will use the following primary sources from ICPR:

-Robert McCruer "Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence"

-Ellen Samuels, "My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming Out"

Some ideas for other narratives that I will be looking at:

-http://www.autostraddle.com/body-as-a-second-language-navigating-queer-girl-culture-on-the-autism-spectrum-204172/

-http://www.autostraddle.com/dust-to-dark-the-colors-of-my-craziness-155582/

-http://www.autostraddle.com/helping-people-through-trauma-what-to-say-when-you-dont-know-what-to-say-200396/

-http://www.autostraddle.com/the-big-reveal-255087/