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Expertise:
- Same-sex couples
- Societal, religious and/or cultural factors that influence a LGB person to enter a heterosexual marriage
- Heterosexual spouses of LGBT persons
- Lesbian and gay parenting and child development (especially children born into mixed-orientation marriages)
- “Coming out” issues
- “Conversion therapies” and claims by the “ex-gay movement”
- Transgender issues (especially spouses in trans/non-trans marriages)
- LGBT healthcare issues other than HIV
- LGBT issues and the workplace
- LGBT people of color
- Religion and LGBT people
Additional Information:
Dr. Buxton has been a researcher, author, and educator who has counseled heterosexual and gay, lesbian, and bisexual spouses in mixed-orientation marriages since 1986. She founded the Straight Spouse Network in 1991. Her research interests include therapy needs for straight spouses in mixed-orientation marriages, coping strategies and stages of couples in post-disclosure, mixed-orientation marriages, and the impact on children of one parent's “coming out" in a heterosexual marriage Her work has involved spouses in mixed-orientation marriages in nations and cultures across the globe, including New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Mexico, China, India, Germany and France, among others.
Selected Publications: (2007) “Counseling Heterosexual Spouses of Bisexual or Transgender Partners, in Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan, Beth Firestein, ed., pp. 635-665. New York: Columbia University Press.
(2006) “When a Spouse Comes Out: Impact on the Heterosexual Spouse,” in Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, Special Issue: Sexual Addiction and the Family, M. Deborah Corley, ed., Vol. 13:2-3, pp. 317-332. (2006) Counseling Heterosexual Spouses and Bisexual/Heterosexual Couples: An Affirmative approach, in Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women and Bisexual Men, Ronald C. Fox ed. New York: Harrington Park Press. (2006) Healing an Invisible Minority: How the Straight Spouse Network Has Become the Prime Source of Support for Those in Mixed-Orientation Marriages,” in Interventions with Families of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People: From the Inside Out, Jerry J Bigner and Andrew R. Gottlieb, eds., pp, 49-69. (2005). A Family Matter: When a Spouse Comes Out as Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 1(2), 49-70. (2004b) Paths and Pitfalls: Heterosexual Spouses After Their Spouses Come Out. Journal of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. (2004a) “Works in Progress: How Bisexual Wives and Their Heterosexual Husbands Maintain Their Marriages after Disclosure” In Current Research in Bisexuality, Ronald C. Fox, ed., pp. 57-82. New York: Hayworth, Press. (2003) Foreword, Sons Talk About Their Gay Fathers, Andrew R. Gottlieb, auth. New York: Hayworth Press. (2001) “Writing Our Own Script: How Bisexual Men and Their Heterosexual Wives Maintain Their Marriages After Disclosure,” in Facts and Fictions: Experiencing Male Bisexuality, Brett Beemyn and Erich Steinman, eds., pp. 157-189. New York: Haworth Press. (2001) Foreword, My Husband Is Gay, Carol Grever, auth. Crossing Press.
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