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

The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World, by Alan Downs. 2006 softcover. 212 pages, very nice condition.

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.