Gay body Book

The spiritual journey to adulthood is, for most gay men, particularly difficult. Often suffering the hurts of difficult childhoods, the assaults and rejections of indifferent or confused families, and the outsider status conferred upon them by society at large, many get lost along the way.

In an electrifying mix of theory and autobiography, Mark Thompson explores the stages of healing and recovery that gay men can experience if they dare to take the path leading to a fully integrated body and spirit. In his own life, he details the experience of growing up gay in a dysfunctional family, the heady days of the early 1970s in San Francisco, and his attempts to heal himself - from the fairy circles to the deepest reaches of the lather movement. Intermixed is an explanation of archetypes and how they function in a gay man's life, the roles that they assume, the dangers that they hold, and the lessons that must be learned for each gay man to heal his own gay soul, spirit, and body.