Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay & Lesbian Lives by Gershen Kaufman & Lev Raphael [UNCORRECTED PROOF] 1996 • Doubleday raw food real world Dirty Blonde is Love laid

Dirty Blonde is Love laid bare—a wholly fascinating portrait of a fierce and insightful woman with an unblinking worldview and a determination to express herself no matter the cost

disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him

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

each of them coping with the dramas and rifts surrounding them

Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay & Lesbian Lives by Gershen Kaufman & Lev Raphael [UNCORRECTED PROOF] 1996 • Doubleday raw food real world Dirty Blonde is Love laidComing 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