Background
Richard Green was born on June 6, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, United States, in the family of Leo Harry and Rose (Ingber) Green.
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1969
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1974
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psychiatrist sexologist author
Richard Green was born on June 6, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, United States, in the family of Leo Harry and Rose (Ingber) Green.
In 1957 Richard received Bachelor of Arts at Syracuse University. Then he earned Doctor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in 1961, and got Doctor of Jurisprudence at Yale University.
Psychiatrist and attorney Richard Green is the author of several books on sexual identity, including his 1987 publication, "The “Sissy Boy Syndrome” and the Development of Homosexuality", which studies the connection between feminine behavior in males and the propensity towards homosexuality. Green issued his study based on interviews he conducted over fifteen years. One study group consisted of sixty-six boys who exhibited typically feminine traits. Green conducted interviews with these boys and their parents during his fifteen-year study, and he includes excerpts from many of his interviews in “Sissy Boy." He also seeks to answer the most often asked questions regarding the emergence of homosexuality in boys, looking, for example, at the influence of a passive father on his son’s sexuality.
Green is the founding editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior since 1971, and served as Editor until 2001. In 1974 Green and the board of the new journal established the International Academy of Sex Research, with Green as the founding president. He is also the founding president of the International Academy of Sex Research, which made the Archives its official publication. He served on the American Psychiatric Association DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders. In 1979 Green was a founding committee member of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association and served as president from 1997–1999. He previously directed the human sexuality program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has been Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of Psychiatry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Professor of Psychological Medicine, Imperial College, London. He was on the faculty of Law at UCLA and Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 1994. Green served as President of World Professional Association for Transgender Health from 1997 to 1999.
Richard argued that the grounds for deciding the issue of homosexuality should be the "historical and cross-cultural groundings in homosexual expression, associated psychiatric features accompanying a homosexual orientation, the emotional consequences to the homosexual of societal condemnation, and behaviors of other species."
Quotations: I suspect that at least in your lifetime we will find a gene that contributes substantially to sexual orientation.
Richard has a life partner Melissa Hines, with whom he has a son Adam Hines-Green.
