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Paperback
Publisher: Plume Book
Format: Bargain Price
For gay men and lesbians, as well as for the families and friends of gays, this 1990's guide to coming out privately and publicly is a frank, powerful, and much-needed book. Eichberg says that a full-scale effort to find a cure for AIDS will only be implemented when gay people collectively affirm their sexuality.
Taking responsibility for your life is the first step in moving forward and changing the world inside and around you. Rob Eichberg's Coming Out: An Act of Love, written for both men and women, is a step-by-step guide to understanding and accepting your homosexuality and dealing with others' reaction to it. Using clear, empathetic, and direct language, Eichberg, a trained psychotherapist, explains in detail how coming out radically alters self-perception and your relationships with others. Using examples from his own practice and letters from gay people to their mothers, fathers, siblings, and friends, Eichberg puts a positive, forceful, but gentle face on the process of coming out and the complications that it sometimes raises. Eichberg discusses coming out as a psychological and political process that affects not only individuals but their families as well. Because this book continually reaffirms gayness as a gift for everyone--straight and gay--it can be read by gay people coming to terms with their sexuality and by their parents, friends, and coworkers. There are also chapters on how AIDS has affected the coming out process and how to deal with AIDS-phobia on a personal and political level. Coming Out: An Act of Love centers on the individual, but understands that one person's actions of self-respect and love can begin to change the world. --Michael Bronski
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| Coming Out is a good thing. |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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While there is a workshop that goes with this book. I think it is a good self help book and I agree with the author that everyone needs to comeout, be honest about who they are. This is the only way one is going to live a satisfying life. However, I don't agree that HIV/AIDS is about hiding and feeling shame.
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| Not the Same Book |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This is a place for the NOVEL "Coming Out" by playwright Wallace Hamilton. It's NOT the same as the book "Coming Out: An Act of Love" which seems to be some sort of self-help book. The novel is a bit dated, but still an interesting picture of gay life in the 1970's. The main relationship is believable and touching.
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| Positive and helpful, for today and for many reasons |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I adore this book. When i needed it most, luckily it was there for me. This is a timeless book, truly, though written quite a while ago. I was saddened to know that the author had passed away, because i wanted so much to share with him what helpful perspective this has given me.
I recommend this book for people who are coming out, or thinking about it. It is gentle, and the stories of people are what make his idea about this process so alive and relevant. It is positive. It is loving toward those in ones life who may or may not struggle as we do with coming out.
I also recommend this to people who are trying to discover ANY issue about themselves and come to terms with it, and then trying to convey this to those in their lives. It is that kind of really awesome self-help book. Never preachy. Always thoughtful.
Get it!
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| For outgoing people |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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This book was not very helpful to me at all. I am a rather introspective and shy person, and this book gave advice such as "Now you should go meet some other homosexual people and becomes friends," which was extremely hard for me to follow. My advice to anyone coming out would be to start with the person who is closest to you and branch out. The first person I talked to about my homosexuality was my best friend. After I was able to talk to her about it comfortably, I decided to tell some of my other friends, and then after a few more months, I told my father, with whom I live. I learned that I was nevrous for nothing. He still loves me, and nothing has changed in our relationship. I feel as if a burden has been lifted, but I wouldn't account any of it to my book. If you are more of an outgoing person, I would recommend this book. For everyone else, start small and remember, if they don't like you because of your sexual prefence, are they really worth knowing?
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| This is a classic! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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It took me a long time to get started on this book, but once I did, I couldn't stop. Written in the late seventies, "Coming Out" remains timeless. The lives of Roger and Michael wind in and out of the lives of a variety of people in every class and background and deals with feelings and attitudes that are as real today as they were back then. This book is out of print, but if you find a copy used, snatch it up!
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