School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youth
Subtitle: The Invisible Minority
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: April 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781560231097
Subjects: Gay studies (Gay men); Lesbian Studies; Teaching of those with special educational needs; Students & Student Life; Homosexuality; Education Of Special Classes Of Persons; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction; Gay Studies; Gay high school students; United States; Homophobia in high schools; Lesbian high school students
First sentence: Identity and career developmental theories notwithstanding, many lesbian and gay young people spend their adolescence traversing the minefields of coming out and handling homophobia instead of traveling the merely rocky road of personal, sexual, and vocational identity development that characterizes adolescence for most young people.