From Parks (1999)

   Average age of various stages in adopting

   lesbian identity

                       Respondent’s Age

                 Middle Age            Younger

First

awareness

of feelings        17                   14.6

First same-sex

Sexual contact       21.1                     20.5

First self-

Identification       25.5                     20.3

(time to go

from first Feelings

to identity)          8.5 years               5.7 years