HOW GROUPS WORK: COMING OUT OF A GAY IDENTITY, AND BECOMING ONE OF THE GUYS
Some of the quotes from his article:
...I first became interested in gender-identity development and masculine sexuality eight years ago, at the beginning of the men's movement
...As I took his history, I saw a man whose masculine identity development had been so derailed as a child, that it was not surprising to me that he had homoerotic feelings.
Born to a borderline mother that would dress him up in dresses, he further suffered when his father died when he was four, and the only male left in his life was an uncle, who often told him that he should have been born a girl. Being sexually molested by a neighbor, a teacher, and a relative made the derailment of his masculine development complete.
... He began to see that his masculine identity was seriously injured, and that he needed and really wanted help to heal his masculine self, instead of being reinforced in the belief that he was "gay."
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