OutBook Book Club

The OutBook Book Club is supported by The Palm Springs Cultural Center and the Palm Springs Public Library. Selections are chosen by group members and highlight a mix of new LGBTQ+ releases and influential classics.

OutBook meets on the first Wednesday of the month in the upstairs VIP room at the Palm Springs Cultural Center from 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. The book discussion starts at 7:00 p.m. (from 6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. is a social mixer). For more information, please email book club coordinator Hubertus Zegers at hwzegers@gmail.com in advance of the meeting.

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Most titles are available as Downloadable Audiobooks and/or eBooks from PSPL.

January 4, 2023 (Meets at Community Room at Mizell Center)

 The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up

Gay in a Straight Man's World, 2nd Edition by Alan Downs Ph. D.

—This groundbreaking and empowering book examines the impact of growing up and surviving as a gay man in a society still learning to accept all identities.

In The Velvet Rage, psychologist Alan Downs draws on his own struggle with shame and anger, contemporary research, and stories from his patients to passionately describe the stages of a gay man's journey out of shame and offers practical and inspired strategies to stop the cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior. The Velvet Rage is an empowering book that has already changed the public discourse on gay culture and helped shape the identity of an entire generation of gay men.

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