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

Alan Downs

252 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ psychology challenging reflective medium-paced

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In , 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 ...

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