The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World Format:Paperback Queer Magic provides nourishment for

Queer Magic provides nourishment for LGBTQ+ souls and their allies who are interested in learning about the significant presence and influence of queer folks throughout history

" --Vulture

A Washington Post Best Book of 2017

More explicitly connected to her role as a pioneering queer theorist are an exuberant attack against reactionary refusals of the work of Guy Hocquenghem and talks in which she lays out her central ideas about sexuality and her concerns about the direction of US queer theory

The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World Format:Paperback Queer Magic provides nourishment forThis 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