Box 1

The collection includes papers relating to research done by Tom Boyden for his Master’s thesis. Boyden was a student at Loyola University of Chicago in 1980. The thesis involves “studying homosexual attraction as it is likely to occur within the context of an on-going relationship. Instead of the usual emphasis on sexual factors, the role of personality characteristics is considered in terms of the similarity versus complementarity[sic] paradigm.”

The collection includes papers relating to research done by Tom Boyden for his Master’s thesis. Boyden was a student at Loyola University of Chicago in 1980. The thesis involves “studying homosexual attraction as it is likely to occur within the context of an on-going relationship. Instead of the usual emphasis on sexual factors, the role of personality characteristics is considered in terms of the similarity versus complementarity[sic] paradigm.”