Plenary Session:
Invited Address by Ritch C. Savin-Williams, PhD—

New Gay Teenager: A Revolution in the Making (2176)

Friday, August 7, 12:00–12:50 p.m., Room 801B

Ritch C. Savin-Williams, PhD, is professor and chair of the Department of Human Development and director of the Sex & Gender Lab at Cornell University. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago. His seven books on adolescent development include “…and Then I Became Gay”: Young Men’s Stories (1998); Mom, Dad, I’m Gay: How Families Negotiate Coming Out (2001); and The New Gay Teenager (2005). He has also written a junior high curriculum for the Unitarian Universalist Association, Beyond Pink and Blue: Exploring Our Stereotypes of Sexuality and Gender. Dr. Savin-Williams is currently writing about the experiences of growing up with same-sex attractions, the resiliency and mental health of sexual-minority youth, and the sexual development of heterosexual youth. Dr. Savin- Williams is a licensed clinical psychologist and has served as an expert witness on same-sex marriage, gay adoption, and Boy Scout court cases. He has been a consultant for MTV, 20/20, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and CNN, and his work has been cited in Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, Utne Reader, Fortune, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, and the Chicago Sun-Times. Dr. Savin-Williams received the 2001 Award for Distinguished Scientifi c Contribution and the 2005 Outstanding Book Award from APA’s Division 44. He gave the 2006 APA Science Directorate’s Master Lecture in developmental psychology and has been awarded fellow status from the Association for Psychological Science.

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