When and how to come out are difficult choices. In this research project, we examine one form of disclosure: the addition of an LGBTQ keyword to one's online social media profile. We construct daily time series of the prevalence of LGBTQ keywords within American Twitter users' self-descriptions. Further, we construct daily time series of inferred add and drop events. These we compare to relevant annual and one-time events. We confirm or disconfirm our pre-registered hypotheses.
**Pre-Registered Hypotheses**
On October 16, 2019, we finalized a list of LGBTQ-relevant events and a set of pre-registered hypotheses. We completed this before constructing the time-series datasets for this project.
- [LGBTQ-relevant events][1]
- [Pre-Registered Hypotheses][2]
We uploaded [a manuscript][3] exploring these hypotheses on June 22, 2020. The [most recent manuscript][4] (uploaded Nov 20, 2020) contains more analysis.
**Bostock Effect Pre-Registerd Hypotheses**
Just after the Bostock US Supreme Court decision was announced, we created a new list of pre-registered hypotheses to explore: [Immediately Observable Effects (or not) of the Bostock US Supreme Court Decision on Personally Expressed LGBTQ Identity][5]
[1]: https://osf.io/zc7qd/
[2]: https://osf.io/xrck2/
[3]: https://osf.io/dnbx3/
[4]: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/8yjcm/
[5]: https://osf.io/v7ugw/