TY - BOOK AU - Savin-Williams,Ritch C. TI - The new gay teenager T2 - Adolescent lives SN - 0674016734 AV - HQ76.25 .S395 2005 U1 - 305.235 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - Gay teenagers KW - Psychology KW - Mental health N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -