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*EPUB$ The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World,Second Edition {PDF EBOOK EPUB KINDLE}*EPUB$ The VelvetRage: Overcomingthe Pain of GrowingUp Gay in a StraightMan's World, SecondEdition {PDF EBOOKEPUB KINDLE}DescriptionPhiladelphia Gay News bestseller, 5/11/12 'A groundbreaking examination of the psychology ofhomosexuality, why it leads to shame over one's identity, and how to overcome it.... This book hasremarkable staying power.'Artvoice, 11/26/15 'The clearest, most succinct delineation of theorigins and consequences of internalized homophobia, and how to address them.''Those familiarwith gay men will find a good deal of honest reporting here. Without being maudlin, Downs, himselfa gay man, writes movingly.'―Library Journal'Peppered with deeply personal reflections...There's no doubt that the men profiled in this sober call for 'owning the injury' of growing up gay ina straight world were helped by their counseling, or that there are certainly some readers who willfind their own lives reflected in that healing.'―Q Syndicate'[An] excellent new book...The VelvetRage is a chronicle of furtive pathos, anger, compensatory fabulousness, despair, sex addiction,and flickerings of hope as its wounded actors make their way by uncertain stages toward a light ofauthenticity and self-acceptance their culture does not want them to find or even see. In its pages,through anecdotal moments and analytical passages, one is constantly catching glints of peopleone has known, behaviors one has seen and heard firsthand and often been baffled and hurtby.'―San Francisco Bay Guardian'Dr. Alan Downs has some words of wisdom....Althoughunnerving at first, readers might feel kinship with the case study subjects and ultimately, becomeempowered by the lessons learned and by the self-realizations experienced.'―New City Chicago'While we can all hope that the collective experience will change in time, Downs' perspective is stillall too relevant.'―AOL's Book Maven Alan Downs, PhD, is a clinical psychologist practicing inBeverly Hills, California. The former CEO of Michaelâ€s House Treatment Center, Downs nowmaintains a thriving private psychotherapy practice and an intensive outpatient addictionprogram.Â