Project Stress, Health, AND Relationships (SHARe)
Project Stress, Health, AND Relationships (SHARe) was a mixed-method research study that took place over a five-year period. With qualitative and quantitative data collected from diverse samples of same-sex couples, project SHARe aimed to identify previously unexamined stressors that same-sex couples experience due to minority stress, as well as develop and test new scale measures of couple-level minority stressors. In-depth interviews and web-based surveys of gay and lesbian couples ages 21 and older were conducted in both San Francisco, California and Atlanta, Georgia. Project SHARe was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and was conducted in partnership with San Francisco State University (SFSU).