In this down-to-earth book, filled wh the voic of young people speakg for themselv, Sav-Williams argu that the standard image of gay youth prented by mental health rearchers -- as prsed, isolated, dg-pennt, even suicidal -- may have been exaggerated even twenty years ago, and is far om accurate today.
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WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GAY TEENAGERS
Over the past year, the news has been filled wh stori of the suici among gay teenagers who’ve suffered bullyg om their peers.
And there’s no doubt that some gay teenagers suffer more emotnal distrs than straight on. Rch Sav-Williams, profsor of Human Development at the College of Human Elogy and director of Cornell’s Sex and Genr Lab, has wrten a book that vers the topics lled The New Gay Teenager. In the book, Sav-Williams mak the pot that is much easier to get grants to study clil problems and treatment, meang that gay teenagers whout health or emotnal problems have fallen unr the radar of most amic studi.
THE NEW GAY TEENAGER
We don’t hear about normal gay teens, ” he told the New York Tim for an article earlier this year. A large number of studi found no group differenc between gay and straight youth, but the have not been published. “I’m ncerned about the msage beg given to gay youth by adults who say they are sted to be prsed, abe dgs or perhaps m suici, ” he said.
About 10 to 15 percent are agile gay kids, and they’re sceptible to msag of gay-youth suici. “There are straight youth who are genr-atypil and they suffer as much as gay kids. But whether there’s a direct lk between bullyg and suici among gay teens has not been shown.