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. 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.
