Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay & Lesbian Lives by Gershen Kaufman & Lev Raphael [UNCORRECTED PROOF] 1996 • Doubleday raw food real world “'Violet Bent Backwards over the

“'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

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

The corpse

Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay & Lesbian Lives by Gershen Kaufman & Lev Raphael [UNCORRECTED PROOF] 1996 • Doubleday raw food real world “'Violet Bent Backwards over theComing 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