...And Then I Became Gay

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-91676-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

".And Then I Became Gay is about the lives of young men who express the complications, adversities, and satisfactions of being a sexual outsider in North America during the 1980s and 1990s. Consisting of narratives which chronicle developmental progression from first memories of being attracted to other males to a subsequent integration of their sexual identity with a personal identity, this book is also unique in its cross-section of men from different ethnic backgrounds. Although each story in this volume has a personal meaning to the individual youth disclosing it, aspects of these narratives can express a normative experience growing up gay or bisexual during the past two decades. For many of the contributors and readers, these stories may prove to be not only ones of coming out, but coming of age.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Savin-Williams, Ritch C.

Savin-Williams, Ritch

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Personal Stories and Sexuality
2. Childhood: Memories of Same-Sex Attractions
3. Labeling Feelings and Attractions
4. First Gay Sex
5. First Heterosexual Sex
6. Labeling Self as Gay or Bisexual
7. Disclosure to Others
8. First Gay Romance
9. Positive Identity
10. Ethnic Youths
11. The Diversity of Gay Youth

Über Autor(innen)

Ritch C. Savin-Williams is Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology at Cornell University. He is co-editor of The Lives of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals: Children to Adults (1996).