
a book
The Velvet Rage
Alan Downs · 2006 · 252 pages
“The Velvet Rage is becoming a touchstone in gay culture just as Goodbye to Berlin was in the 30s, A Boy’s Own Story in the 60s and Faggots in the 70s.”--Observer (UK)
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Brené Brown
“@KyleKriegerHair The Velvet Rage is such an important book.”↗

Soman Chainani
“Ostensibly about if you grow up a gay man, how to deal with it in the world. But I think it’s more about modern masculinity and about what it means to be a man in America.”↗