The Velvet Rage
Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
by Alan Downs
252 pages· 2012· ISBN 9780738215679
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Offers advice on how gay men can overcome their deep-seated feelings of shame, which is often associated with their earliest childhood experiences and the ambivalent relationship they have with their own father.
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