Vernon A. Rosario II (born 1962) is an American psychiatrist and medical historian who studies human sexuality.
Rosario earned undergraduate degrees in French literature and biomedical engineering from Brown University in 1986.
Since then he has been in private practice and been a psychiatric consultant at Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services in Los Angeles.
[2] He has been a longtime activist in eliminating homophobia,[3] and he has criticized author J. Michael Bailey’s stereotypic depiction of gay men in The Man Who Would Be Queen.
[5] Rosario has also expressed concern for excessive specialization in psychiatry, focusing on neuroscience while ignoring other factors.