Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay & Lesbian Lives by Gershen Kaufman & Lev Raphael [UNCORRECTED PROOF] 1996 • Doubleday raw food real world a few very tiny stains

a few very tiny stains noticed [see last photo]

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

For Billy Neary

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

and recreating the trial from the transcripts

Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay & Lesbian Lives by Gershen Kaufman & Lev Raphael [UNCORRECTED PROOF] 1996 • Doubleday raw food real world a few very tiny stainsComing 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