Seven gay men regarding their experiences of relationship stigma in the gay community

This dataset contains qualitative verbatim interview transcripts of seven gay men in South Africa. The participants were voluntarily recruited from various locations across South Africa. Data were collected through individual and unstructured virtual interviews. No interview schedule was utilised, though a grounding question was asked ("Can you tell me about an instance where a gay man behaved negatively towards you because of your relationship arrangement?"). The unstructured interview format was aimed at generating participants' experiences of stigma towards their consensually non-monogamous relationship arrangement that occurred within the gay community. Six of the seven participants were identified as White and one as Coloured, while sixcharacterised their relationships as 'Open' and one as 'Polyamorous.' Mage = 30. Note that all names used in the data are pseudonyms.

本数据集包含七位南非同性恋男性的定性访谈原始文本记录。受访者自愿来自南非各地。数据通过个体和非结构化虚拟访谈方式收集。尽管未采用访谈日程表，但提出了一个基础性问题（“您能否讲述一次因为您的恋爱安排而遭到同性恋男性负面行为的经历？”）。非结构化访谈格式旨在揭示受访者对其在同性恋社群内自愿的非单一恋爱关系安排所遭受的污名化经历的感受。其中六位受访者被识别为白人，一位为有色人种，六位描述其关系为‘开放式’，一位为‘多伴侣式’。平均年龄为30岁。请注意，数据中使用的所有姓名均为化名。