Gay student visibility on university campuses has risen dramatically over the past 20 years. In spite of this, the sources of impact on their identity development while in college have remained a mystery. In this two-phase study, fifty-nine self-identified gay male undergraduate and graduate students, ages 18-30, at public and private universities nationwide participated in a mixed-methods.. In the first phase students used a critical incident format to describe experiences that they felt had had the greatest impact on their identity development during their undergraduate years. In the study's second phase, participants assigned similarity ratings to the 14 identified categories of impact. Multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis were then employed to analyze these data. This analysis resulted in the creation of a concept map that represented in pictorial form the ways in which these gay students had organized these categories of experiences. Implications of this research for higher education practitioners and suggestions for future research are presented.

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