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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Adolescent lives ; 3.Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005Description: xi, 272 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674016734
  • 9780674016736
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.235 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.25 .S395 2005
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index.

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.

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.

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