The new gay teenager / Ritch C. Savin-Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savin-Williams, Ritch C.

Series:

Adolescent lives ; 3.

Adolescent lives ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay teenagers--Social conditions.

Gay teenagers.

Gay teenagers--Psychology.

Gay teenagers--Mental health.

LGBTQ+ youth.

Physical Description:

xi, 272 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gay, straight, bisexual: how much does sexual orientation matter to a teenager's mental health or sense of identity? In this down-to-earth book, filled with the voices of young people speaking for themselves, Savin-Williams argues that the standard image of gay youth presented by mental health researchers--as depressed, isolated, drug-dependent, even suicidal--may have been exaggerated even twenty years ago, and is far from accurate today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Why the New Gay Teenager?

2. Who's Gay?

3. In the Beginning . . .Was Gay Youth

4. Models or Trajectories?

5. Feeling Different

6. Same-Sex Attractions

7. First Sex

8. Identity

9. Resilience and Diversity

10. Refusing and Resisting Sexual Identity Labels

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674043138

0674043138

OCLC:

1049612136