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Title	The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World, Second Edition
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The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World, Second Edition

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Publisher: John M. Barry
Published: 2016-05-15
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The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World (2nd ed.). by Alan Downs - (2014). The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World (2nd ed.). by Alan Downs. Journal of Homosexuality: Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 354-360.

The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World - A groundbreaking examination of the psychology of homosexuality, why it leads to shame over one's identity, and how to overcome it In The Velvet Rage, psychologist Alan Downs draws on his own struggle with shame and anger, contemporary research, and stories from his patients to passionately describe the stages of a gay man's journey out of shame and offers practical and inspired strategies to stop the cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior. The Velvet Rage is an empowering book that has already changed the public discourse on gay culture and helped shape the identity of an entire generation of gay men.

The Velvet Rage - The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexuality, and, encouragingly,

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The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World|Paperback - A groundbreaking examination of the psychology of homosexuality, why it leads to shame over one's identity, and how to overcome itIn The Velvet Rage, psychologist Alan Downs draws on his own struggle with shame and anger, contemporary research, and stories from his

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The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World. - Becoming a fulfilled gay man is not about trying to become "not gay," but has everything to do with finding a way through this world that affords us our share of joy, happiness, fulfillment, and love. In my practice as a psychologist, this is my goal: to help gay men be gay and fulfilled. The lessons I've learned from the profound teachers in my life--my gay male patients--are collected in this book. Their struggles, disappointments, and ultimate achievements are chronicled here. The book is arranged into a simple three-stage model that describes the journey of virtually all gay men with whom I have worked. I suspect that this model, or some modified version of it, is likely to be universal to all gay men in the western world and perhaps across the globe. The stages are arranged by the primary manner in which the gay man handles shame. The first stage is "Overwhelmed by Shame" and includes that period of time when he remained "in the closet" and fearful of his own sexuality. The second stage is "Compensating

The velvet rage : overcoming the pain of growing up gay in a straight man\'s world - The most important issue in a gay man\'s life is not \"coming out,\" but coming to terms with the invalidating past. Despite the progress made in recent years, many gay men still wonder, \"Are we better off?\" The byproduct of growing up gay in a straight world continues to be the internalization of shame, rejection, and anger--a toxic cocktail that can lead to drug abuse, promiscuity, alcoholism, depression, and suicide ...

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