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Healing Gay Sex and Love: A Group Experience is a radical new form of queer literaturepart clinical theatre, part confessional myth, part psychic map of shame, eros, and survival. Drawn from thirty years of LGBTQ-affirmative psychotherapy, it follows four gay menBobby, Andy, John, and Harryas they fight to heal the buried wounds of sex, love, masculinity, and memory.

Their group therapy sessions unfold through dream, memory, and raw emotionfrom cracked leather couches in Los Angeles to the imaginal world of Platos Symposium, where ancient gay wisdom returns as a living tool for recovery. Against a backdrop of AIDS loss, assimilation, and erotic shame, their journeys blur the line between psychoanalysis and performance, sacred eros and queer rage.

This is not your typical self-help book. It fuses queer theory, depth psychology, and group drama into a bold new form. With humor, tenderness, and rawness, Healing Gay Sex and Love offers no blueprintonly a group portrait for those done apologizing, done pretending, and ready for something messier, harder, more beautiful and more real than anything the mainstream can offer.

For readers of Paul Monette, Sarah Schulman, Essex Hemphill, and Felice Picanoand for anyone whos ever sat in the back of a gay bar or therapy room wondering if healing was possible, and what it might cost to get there.

The book will be released June 27, 2025.

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Healing Gay Sex and Love: A Group Experience is a work of psychological narrative fiction written by a therapist, blending queer literature, depth psychology, and group therapy into a bold, emotionally charged reading experience.

In a Hollywood therapy group, four gay men—brilliant, wounded, funny, guarded—meet each week to confront what comes after coming out, hooking up, and "doing the work." Under the watchful (and occasionally unruly) guidance of Dr. Glitter, therapy becomes something more volatile: confession, mythic reenactment, power struggle, erotic honesty, and collective repair.

As the men spar, seduce, rupture, and reconnect, ancient frameworks—from Plato's Symposium to The Wizard of Oz—reappear in drag, offering unexpected tools for shadow work, intimacy, masculinity, and emotional survival. What unfolds is not a manual, but a lived process: how healing actually happens when desire, shame, loyalty, fantasy, and history collide in real time.

This is not a traditional self-help book, and not quite a novel. Drawing on decades of LGBTQ-affirmative psychotherapy practice, it is a genre-bending fusion of therapy fiction, gay literature, and psychological insight—funny, profane, tender, and emotionally risky.

Written for readers interested in gay books, therapy and psychology, shadow work, self-help with depth, and LGBTQ literature by therapists, Healing Gay Sex and Love asks a radical question:
nWhat happens when gay men stop asking for permission—and start asking for meaning?

This book is a work of psychological narrative fiction. While informed by clinical experience, the characters, group, and events are fictional, and at times deliberately mythic.

Healing Gay Sex and Love: A Group Experience

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