The new gay teenager /

Argues that the standard image of gay youth as depressed, isolated, and drug-dependent that was presented by mental health researchers twenty years ago may have been exaggerated and offers a more accurate portrayal of gay youths in the early twenty-first century.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Savin-Williams, Ritch C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachussetts : Harvard University Press, [2005]
Series:Adolescent lives ; 3.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Why the new gay teenager?
  • Who's gay?
  • In the beginning ... was gay youth
  • Models or trajectories?
  • Feeling different
  • Same-sex attractions
  • First sex
  • Identity
  • Resilience and diversity
  • Refusing and resisting sexual identity labels.