Eto pervaya v rossiyskoy sotsiologicheskoy literature kniga, v kotoroy predstavlen kompleksnyy analiz gomoseksual'nosti v kontekste sotsiologicheskoy nauki. V ney rassmatrivayutsya teoreticheskie, metodologicheskie i metodicheskie aspekty dannoy problemy. Osoboe vnimanie udelyaetsya voprosu izmereniya gomoseksual'nosti v sotsiologicheskikh issledovaniyakh. Analiziruyutsya metodologicheskie podkhody k izucheniyu seksual'noy orientatsii, privodyatsya rezul'taty ryada spetsial'nykh metodicheskikh issledovaniy, provedennykh avtorom. Kniga prednaznachena dlya nauchnykh rabotnikov, praktikuyushchikh sotsiologov i psikhologov, sotsial'nykh rabotnikov, prepodavateley, aspirantov, a takzhe dlya studentov sotsiologicheskikh fakul'tetov i spetsial'nostey.
