The Velvet Rage Av Alan Downs

<DIV><B>This groundbreaking and empowering book examines the impact of growing up and surviving as a gay man in a society still learning to accept all identities.</B><BR/><BR/>In <I>The Velvet Rage</I>, 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. <I>The Velvet Rage</I> 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.</DIV>