Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay & Lesbian Lives by Gershen Kaufman & Lev Raphael [UNCORRECTED PROOF] 1996 • Doubleday raw food real world each of them coping with

each of them coping with the dramas and rifts surrounding them

Cover has shelf wear

“'Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass' is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many

a few very tiny stains noticed [see last photo]

For Billy Neary

Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay & Lesbian Lives by Gershen Kaufman & Lev Raphael [UNCORRECTED PROOF] 1996 • Doubleday raw food real world each of them coping withComing Out of Shame: Transforming Gay and Lesbian Lives by Gershen Kaufman Ph. D. & Lev Raphael Ph. D. UNCORRECTED PROOF [1996] DOUBLEDAY Large trade paperback in very good condition. Some mild shelf wear to cover; small scratch to spine. Reads perfectly. Most gay men and lesbians grow up learning that to be gay is to be sick, to be unnatural, to be a sinner. By adolescence, such negative attitudes have produced and reinforced a single, powerful