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The New Gay Teenager By Rich C. Savin – Williams

The New Gay TeenagerGay, 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, Ritch 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.

The New Gay Teenager gives readers a refreshing and frequently controversial introduction to confident, competent, upbeat teenagers with same-sex desires, who worry more about the chemistry test or their curfew than they do about their sexuality. What does “gay” mean, when some adolescents who have had sexual encounters with those of their own sex don’t consider themselves gay, when some who consider themselves gay have had sex with the opposite sex, and when many have never had sex at all’ Teenagers (unlike social science researchers) are not especially interested in neatly categorizing their sexual orientation.

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Ritch C. Savin-Williams is a Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology at Cornwell University and author of “Mom, Dad. I’m Gay”: How Families Negotiate Coming Out.

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