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Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay and Lesbian Lives

Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay and Lesbian Lives

Kaufman, Gershon
Raphael, Lev

Paperback

GLBTQIA StudiesSexuality

ISBN10: 0385477961
ISBN13: 9780385477963
Publisher: Main Street Books
Published: Dec 1 1996
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.82 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
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 emotion: shame, the feeling that you're inferior and judged as bad, for what you are--gay.

In Coming out of Shame Gershen Kaufman and Lev Raphael expose the role shame has come to play in gay and lesbian lives. Rarely discussed but vastly important, shame powerfully shapes each individual's development of self-esteem, identity, and intimacy--three areas in which gay men and lesbians have been extremely vulnerable to the crippling effects of shame. Tracing the historical and cultural sources of gay shame, Kaufman and Raphael reveal how gay men and lesbians have internalized shame, resulting in self-loathing and destructive behaviors.

The hallmark of shame is silence, and by breaking the silence around the dynamics of gay shame, Kaufman and Raphael offer a way to come out of shame and begin the journey toward wholeness and self-acceptance. Filled with the experiences of those struggling to overcome shame, Coming Out of Shame includes strategies for:

- Storing self-esteem

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