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AbstractObjectiveTo delineate the process and contributors to parental acceptance of their child's lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) identity.BackgroundResearch has depicted the processes through which parents accept their LGB child. This study extends the scope of inquiries to a non‐Western context and delineates the factors for shifts in parental attitudes.MethodTwelve mothers and four fathers in Taiwan participated in interviews recounting their responses to learning of their child's LGB status. Following grounded theory methodology, we coded and analyzed data using constant comparative analysis.ResultsTwo themes were identified. The first involved parents' initial reactions to their child coming out, which were dominated by emotional unrest and lingering concerns regarding their child's future. The second highlighted the mechanisms of change, including seeking support and knowledge, emotional connections with LGB children, and social and legal changes. The results of this study provide contextualized descriptions of how Taiwanese parents navigate their child's disclosure of their LGB identity.ConclusionContemporary parents need psychosocial support from peers and professionals to understand and accept their LGB child.ImplicationsThis study highlights the importance of a contextual understanding and relationship‐based approach to support parental acceptance of their LGB child.

Taking as its subject Chinese immigrant-settler literature across the Pacific, this study introduces the concept of minor settler to describe settlers who are marginalized within settler society, as later-coming immigrants, racialized minority, or colonized peoples. Maintaining that their experiences of settlement differ from those of dominant settlers, and also foregrounding their role and responsibility as settlers perpetuating Indigenous dispossession, this dissertation is motivated by two research questions: (1) how minor settler aspiration for identity and belonging may corroborate settler ideology of non-native right to place, and (2) whether and how their minority struggle may lead to productive engagement with Indigenous decolonization. To answer these questions, I examine contemporary literary fictions by Chinese minor settler authors in Hawai'i, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Taiwan. Using critical insights from settler colonial studies and Indigenous critical theories, I analyze Chinese minor settler narratives against each location's layered settler colonial history, Indigenous political expressions, and racial and national discourses, illustrating how these different conditions of literary production give rise to specific themes, formal qualities, and political commitments in minor settler literary narratives across national contexts. In each case I scrutinize instances where minor settler articulations facilitate ongoing settler hegemony and Indigenous silence, and also seek moments when they turn to Indigenous historiography and values for alternative relations and conversations. This study concludes that minor settler narratives can and do engage with both dominant settler and Indigenous narratives, as these coincide on the same geographical site and through interlocking historical processes. Despite their marginality, in narrating identity, belonging, place, and history, minor settler authors commit into writing their understanding of nation and subjectivity, and contribute to the ongoing negotiations between settler and Indigenous sovereignties.