Download or read book How to Be Gay and Happy a Psychotherapist Explains written by Peter Field and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how you identify or define your sexuality - Gay or LGBTIQ - the road to a more joyful, happy life is open and available to you. In this inspiring, life-changing book - written by a leading psychotherapist - you'll discover answers, solutions, and proven happiness strategies that you can start using today.'How to Be Gay and Happy' is your clear, concise blueprint to greater happiness, backed by solid research, loaded with practical techniques, and filled with expert insights that will guide you to the happier, more joyful life you deserve. In this remarkable book you will learn how to deal with blocks to your happiness. Including practical ways to safely respond to homophobic people and situations, and how to answer all kinds of religious bigotry and nurture your own inner self. You will find out all you need to know about IF, WHEN and HOW to come out; learn about LGBT health, and explore the whole range of LGB sex practices and techniques - no-holds-barred! You'll learn to see things - and yourself - in a new light, free of the events, prejudices, and myths of the past. What's more, you'll also discover everything necessary in order to find LGBTIQ friends and enter into rewarding relationships - both open and monogamous. 'How To Be Gay and Happy' explores what it really takes to be happy, and teaches you how to achieve this. Inside this inspirational book you will learn fresh, new, research-backed strategies you can use - concrete steps you can take to increase your personal levels of happiness. Packed with essential telephone numbers and useful websites, this is the ONE book written for gay AND lesbian, bisexual, trans, intersex, and questioning persons, covering everything you need to know to live a happier, more satisfying gay life.
Download or read book The Book of More Delights written by Ross Gay and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.
Download or read book God and the Gay Christian written by Matthew Vines and published by Convergent. This book was released on 2014 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinterpretations of key Bible texts related to sexual orientation, written by a Harvard student, present an accessible case for a modern Christian conservative acceptance of sexual diversity.
Download or read book Being Being Happy Being Gay written by Bert Herrman and published by Alamo Square Distributors. This book was released on 1990 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To be a Gay Man written by Will Young and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In To Be a Gay Man, Will Young speaks out about gay shame, revealing the impact it had on his own life, how he learned to deal with it, and how he can now truthfully say he is gay and happy. We know Will as a multi-platinum recording artist, Olivier-nominee, and the first winner of the Idol franchise. But his story began long before his first audition. Looking back on a world where growing up being called gay was the ultimate insult and coming out after a lifetime of hiding his sexuality, Will explores the long-lasting impact repressing his true self has had. As Will’s own story demonstrates, internalised shame in childhood increases the risk of developing low self-worth, and even self-disgust, leading to destructive behaviours in adult life. Will revisits the darkest extremes he has been to, sharing his vulnerabilities, his regrets, tracing his own navigation through it all and showing the way for others who might have felt alone in the same experience. Here you will find a friend, champion and mentor, breaking taboos with frank honesty, and offering invaluable practical advice on overcoming the difficult issues too often faced within the LGBTQ+ community.
Download or read book On Being Gay written by Brian McNaught and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughts on Family, Faith and Love
Download or read book The Velvet Rage written by Alan Downs and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexuality, and, encouragingly, unprecedented acceptability in society. Yet despite the progress of the recent past, gay men still find themselves asking, "Are we really better off?" The inevitable byproduct of growing up gay in a straight world continues to be the internalization of shame, a shame gay men may strive to obscure with a fa?ade of beauty, creativity, or material success. Drawing on contemporary psychological research, the author's own journey to be free of anger and of shame, as well as the stories of many of his friends and clients, The Velvet Rage outlines the three distinct stages to emotional well-being for gay men. Offering profoundly beneficial strategies to stop the insidious cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior, The Velvet Rage is an empowering book that will influence the public discourse on gay culture, and positively change the lives of gay men who read it.
Download or read book It s Okay to Be Gay written by Amy Graefe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy's teddy bear is hiding a secret about himself. His secret is that he is gay, and he must tell his secret to his owner in order to be truly happy. This book is aimed at children ages 3-7 in hopes that it teaches acceptance, love, and understanding for all those that are gay.
Download or read book Paul s Case written by Willa Cather and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul is a schoolboy, described as tall and thin with strange eyes. He is facing the headmaster and several of his teachers, with whom he does not have a good relationship. All of them, in one way or another, find him difficult and disturbing to teach.
Download or read book How To Be Gay written by David M. Halperin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will immediately protest. Such an idea, they will say, is just a stereotype-ridiculously simplistic, politically irresponsible, and morally suspect. The world acknowledges gay male culture as a fact but denies it as a truth. David Halperin, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that gayness is a specific way of being that gay men must learn from one another in order to become who they are. Inspired by the notorious undergraduate course of the same title that Halperin taught at the University of Michigan, provoking cries of outrage from both the right-wing media and the gay press, How To Be Gay traces gay men's cultural difference to the social meaning of style. Far from being deterred by stereotypes, Halperin concludes that the genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised features: its aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoration of glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers. The insights, impertinence, and unfazed critical intelligence displayed by gay culture, Halperin argues, have much to offer the heterosexual mainstream.
Download or read book Gay and Catholic written by Eve Tushnet and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Gender Issues Category (First Place). In this first book from an openly lesbian and celibate Catholic, widely published writer and blogger Eve Tushnet recounts her spiritual and intellectual journey from liberal atheism to faithful Catholicism and shows how gay Catholics can love and be loved while adhering to Church teaching. Eve Tushnet was among the unlikeliest of converts. The only child of two atheist academics, Tushnet was a typical Yale undergraduate until the day she went out to poke fun at a gathering of philosophical debaters, who happened also to be Catholic. Instead of enjoying mocking what she termed the “zoo animals,” she found herself engaged in intellectual conversation with them and, in a move that surprised even her, she soon converted to Catholicism. Already self-identifying as a lesbian, Tushnet searched for a third way in the seeming two-option system available to gay Catholics: reject Church teaching on homosexuality or reject the truth of your sexuality. Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith is the fruit of Tushnet’s searching: what she learned in studying Christian history and theology and her articulation of how gay Catholics can pour their love and need for connection into friendships, community, service, and artistic creation.
Download or read book Healing Homosexuality written by Joseph Nicolosi and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert - The Little Boy Within; Tom - The Married Man; Father John - The Double Life; Charlie - The Search for the Masculine Self; Dan - The Angriest Man; Steve - The Seeker of Male Symbols; Edward - Agony of a Youth; Roger - "Do I Really Want to Be Here?"; Men Together - How Group Therapy Heals; How Reparative Therapy Works.
Download or read book How to be Happy Healthy and Hot written by Sven Rebel and published by Bruno Gmuender. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect guide for the gay guy, this book is full of essential and entertaining information. You'll learn the terrible truth about six-packs, the best new diet tips, the hard facts about the botox myth, how to mix cool cocktails for a hot date, and you'll even get expert advice about keeping a beautiful home.
Download or read book Gay Girl Good God written by Jackie Hill Perry and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I used to be a lesbian.” In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could? At age nineteen, Jackie came face-to-face with what it meant to be made new. And not in a church, or through contact with Christians. God broke in and turned her heart toward Him right in her own bedroom in light of His gospel. Read in order to understand. Read in order to hope. Or read in order, like Jackie, to be made new.
Download or read book Nothing Gay About Being Gay written by Tyeesha Holt and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book exposes truth about the spirit of homosexuality in a way that has never been displayed. Although Teesha's story is uncut, she expresses how the worst part of her testimony was not that she was gay, abusive or confused about her sexual identity; the worst part to her is how no one knew how to approach her with biblical truth. Her mission is to express the gospel in a way that brings truth to the LGBTQ community and equip the body of Christ to effectively minister to those influenced by the spirit of homosexuality.
Download or read book How to be a Happy Homosexual written by Terry Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely new and re-written version of this gay self-help guide now in its fifth edition. It takes into acount the dramatic changes which have occured in gay life since the last edition was published. It also looks at the failings of the gay community and how to avoid the new traps that a more open society has brought.
Download or read book Becoming Who I Am written by Ritch C. Savin-Williams and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proud, happy, grateful—gay youth describe their lives in terms that would have seemed surprising only a generation ago. Yet many adults, including parents, seem skeptical about this sea change in perceptions and attitudes. Even in an age of growing tolerance, coming out as gay is supposed to involve a crisis or struggle. This is the kind of thinking, say the young men at the heart of this book, that needs to change. Becoming Who I Am is an astute exploration of identity and sexuality as told by today’s generation of gay young men. Through a series of in-depth interviews with teenagers and men in their early 20s, Ritch Savin-Williams reflects on how the life stories recorded here fulfill the promise of an affirmative, thriving gay identity outlined in his earlier book, The New Gay Teenager. He offers a contemporary perspective on gay lives viewed across key milestones: from dawning awareness of same-sex attraction to first sexual encounters; from the uncertainty and exhilaration of coming out to family and friends to the forming of adult romantic relationships; from insights into what it means to be gay today to musings on what the future may hold. The voices hail from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, but as gay men they share basic experiences in common, conveyed here with honesty, humor, and joy.
