Questions About The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World

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This book speaks to a common refrain from the older crowd, that current-day gay men are far less witty, snarky and brilliantly funny as the gays of yore. Maybe it;s true; Charles Nelson Riley and 'center square', Paul Lynde and the like, who suggest it was all so much more fun, and not because it was just safer, but more interesting. God help the gays if we become as dull-witted and stale as a Kansas frat boy. "?"

Liam I don't know which book you read, but it wasn't this one. Yes, it reviews the past as well as the near-present experience of being gay, but at no poin…moreI don't know which book you read, but it wasn't this one. Yes, it reviews the past as well as the near-present experience of being gay, but at no point does it glorify that. Rather, it uses those experiences as a pathway for gay men like myself to closely examine who we were and are and why.(less)

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