Ilan Meyer

Ilan H. Meyer (Hebrew: אילן מאיר; born January 26, 1956) is an American psychiatric epidemiologist, author, professor, and a senior scholar for public policy and sexual orientation law at the Williams Institute of UCLA. He has conducted extensive research on minority identities related to sexual orientation, gender, race and ethnicity, drawing conclusions on the impact of social stresses on their mental health. Meyer was an expert witness for the plaintiffs in ''Perry v. Schwarzenegger'' (2010), the federal case that overturned California Proposition 8. Provided by Wikipedia