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. Throughout Homosexual Rites of
Passage, you will explore the essential relationship between
homosexual identity development and rites of passage, or life
experiences or events that mark emotional, familial, and growth
transitions in your life and that they are different for
homosexuals than for heterosexuals. Compelling and informative,
this important book discusses how homophobia and
homosexuals'internalized shame often cause these rites of passage
to be ignored or not considered valid rituals for gay men and
lesbians. You will find helpful and insightful ideas in this
informative book to help you affirm your homosexual identity, such
as: discovering the definitions of the stages of homosexual
identity formation and their significance in defining your view of
self and others examining outlines and descriptions of obstacles
that prevent positive homosexual identity development, such as
fear, shame, and guilt learning to address the role and
significance of rites of passage in creating personal identity and
space analyzing the description of rites of passage that is
specific to the homosexual community and that covers developmental
milestones from birth to death, such as coming out or choosing a
life partnerHomosexual Rites of Passage will assist your homosexual
identity development through the celebration of homosexual rituals
and rites of passage in a positive effective way. This valuable
book addresses the issues that may impede your positive homosexual
identity development and provides you with strategies to heal
wounded and shamed identities, as well as providing you with a
thorough description of homosexual rites of passage to help you
understand and validate your homosexual identity.
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