Editing Sexual orientation (section)

=== Relationships outside of orientation ===
Gay and lesbian people can have sexual relationships with someone of the opposite sex for a variety of reasons, including the desire for a perceived traditional family and concerns of discrimination and religious [[ostracism]].<ref name="Brokeback">{{cite news|title=Many Couples Must Negotiate Terms of 'Brokeback' Marriages|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/health/07broke.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin|last=Butler|first=Katy|date=March 7, 2006|newspaper=New York Times|access-date=February 23, 2017|archive-date=December 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224191941/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/health/many-couples-must-negotiate-terms-of-brokeback-marriages.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
 |title=How to tell if your husband is gay
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}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Taylor & Francis Online : Gay Men from Heterosexual Marriages |journal=Journal of Homosexuality|volume=42|issue=4|pages=15–34|date=30 June 2012|doi=10.1300/J082v42n04_02|pmid=12243483|last1 = Higgins|first1 = Daryl J.|s2cid=32047519}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url= http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_4138478 |title= Gay, Mormon, married |first= Peggy Fletcher |last= Stack |author-link= Peggy Fletcher Stack |date= August 5, 2006 |newspaper= [[The Salt Lake Tribune]] |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130621165041/http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_4138478 |archive-date= June 21, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19990301-000030.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070501170741/http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19990301-000030.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-05-01|title=Gay No More|work=psychologytoday.com}}</ref> While some [[LGBTQ]] people hide their respective orientations from their spouses, others develop positive gay and lesbian identities while maintaining successful heterosexual [[marriage]]s.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Hays D |author2=Samuels A |title=Heterosexual women's perceptions of their marriages to bisexual or homosexual men |journal=J Homosex |volume=18 |issue=1–2 |pages=81–100 |year=1989 |pmid=2794500 |doi=10.1300/J082v18n01_04 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Coleman E |title=Bisexual and gay men in heterosexual marriage: conflicts and resolutions in therapy |journal=J Homosex |volume=7 |issue=2–3 |pages=93–103 |year=1981 |pmid=7346553 |doi=10.1300/J082v07n02_11 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Matteson DR |title=Bisexual men in marriage: is a positive homosexual identity and stable marriage possible? |journal=J Homosex |volume=11 |issue=1–2 |pages=149–71 |year=1985 |pmid=4056386 |doi=10.1300/J082v11n01_12}}</ref> [[Coming out]] of the closet to oneself, a spouse of the opposite sex, and children can present challenges that are not faced by gay and lesbian people who are not married to people of the opposite sex or do not have children.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Nascimento|first1=Geysa Cristina Marcelino|last2=Scorsolini-Comin|first2=Fabio|last3=Nascimento|first3=Geysa Cristina Marcelino|last4=Scorsolini-Comin|first4=Fabio|date=September 2018|title=Revealing one's Homosexuality to the Family: An Integrative Review of the Scientific Literature|journal=Trends in Psychology|language=en|volume=26|issue=3|pages=1527–1541|doi=10.9788/tp2018.3-14pt|issn=2358-1883|doi-access=free}}</ref>