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

2005
LGBTQ+

Clinical psychologist and gay man Alan Downs traces how shame shapes the stages of a gay man's psychological development — and offers a pathway through. One of the most important books in LGBTQ+ men's psychology.

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