The Velvet Rage:Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World The most important issue in a gay man's life is not 'coming out,' but coming to terms with the invalidating past where we learned that we are shameful...." 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 past century, our intimate relationships are generally short-lived compared to straight relationships, sexually transmitted diseases among us are at epidemic proportions, and depression and suicide occur far more frequently than among straight men. Even though an entire generation of us has openly and freely come out of the closet, we still find ourselves asking, "Are we really better off?" Through bravely honest individual stories and compassionate analysis, The Velvet Rage explores how our contentment has been destroyed by lingering, deep-rooted shame-a shame that can be traced to our childhood experiences of feeling "other" and perhaps emotionally abandoned by the first men in our lives, our fathers. Most of us rage quietly against the shame we feel so acutely, masking it behind a faade of beauty, creativity, or material success. It doesn't have to be this way. There is a way out of this emotional bind. 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, Velvet Rage outlines the three distinct stages to emotional well-being for gay men. Offering profoundly helpful strategies to stop the insidious cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior, Velvet Rage is an empowering book you'll wish you read long ago. It's not too late to begin healing now.

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Behind Concrete Doors Through his erotic poetry and spoken word, Aaron Powell shows us the gritty down-low Blatino lifestyle, where you can indulge in the secret lives of men who are seeking sex, love, acceptance, and more sex. When you are Behind Concrete Doors, you will get a peek at the dirty deeds done in barbershops, and bump bubble butts with your favorite news anchor in the club. Experience the raw emotions of not having to hide sexual identity, and losing a friend to AIDS. There's also sex. Let Powell take you Behind Concrete Doors and you'll be left wanting more.

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A Good Time In the Hood In the initial volume of this anthology, Diesel King presents a shocking revolution to the world of gay erotica. One that surpasses the comforts of lustful man-sex beyond the safe confines of Castro and Christopher Streets, and into the rough terrain of the various slums and ghettos that dots the landscape in between. A Good Time in the Hood is a collection of homoerotic adventures told and experienced firsthand by a strikingly handsome muscled man of color that truly enjoys sex with other men of color in these kinds of places. He revisits his most intimate accounts, starting with him and his homeboys running trains on all the neighborhood punks in the dilapidated housing projects that he once resided in. He then recounts "repaying" what he thought was a business partner through classic humiliation to turning out a quiet but sexually curious college student with the help of his former cellmate. In a surprise twist of events, he also finds himself sharing his wanton lust with two middle-aged brothers in the same night. He even took to mentoring a nineteen-year-old boy about the dangers of teasing grown men along so many other scorching hot narratives. Diesel King offers just a modest taste of the man and his numerous escapades within these pages. He does so with the sole purpose of whetting appetites and leaving everyone hungry for more.

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