Homosexual Rites of Passage: A Road to Visibility and Validation

ISBN-13: 9781560239772 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 128 str.

Marie Mohler

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Homosexual Rites of Passage: A Road to Visibility and Validation will help you, as a gay or lesbian individual, work through identity issues, come out, and become visible in a healthy and safe manner. You will find this unique book to be an excellent resource for validation and support during your courageous acts of personal growth. Furthermore, you will discover a positive affirmation of homosexual identities as well as issues that impede or prevent your positive homosexual identity formation. Homosexual Rites of Passage facilitates your journey toward visibility and personal validation by naming fear and shame as obstacles of your growth and describing affirming homosexual rites of passage so that you will not feel alone in your journey through life.

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Contents Foreword (Surina Kahn)

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Setting the Stage
• Chapter 2: Positive Homosexual Identity Development
• Chapter 3: Understanding Fear
• Chapter 4: Overcoming Shame
• Chapter 5: Homosexual Personal Power
• Chapter 6: The Significance of Rites of Passage
• Chapter 7: Acknowledging Homosexual Feelings: The Importance of “Firsts”
• Chapter 8: Coming Out
• Chapter 9: Bridging the Gap: Friendships, Dating, Relationships, and Love
• Chapter 10: Commitment Rituals
• Chapter 11: Family Planning: Pregnancy, Adoption, Childbirth, and Parenting
• Chapter 12: Aging Rites
• Chapter 13: A Road to Visibility and Validation
• Bibliography
• Reference Notes Included

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Mohler Marie