Straight jacket : overcoming society's legacy of gay shame / Matthew Todd.

London : Transworld Publishers, 2018.

xv, 382 pages ; 20 cm

Black Swan edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Written by Matthew Todd, editor of Attitude, the UK's best-selling gay magazine, Straight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the wider LGBT community, their friends and family. Part memoir, part ground-breaking polemic, it looks beneath the shiny facade of contemporary gay culture and asks if gay people are as happy as they could be - and if not, why not? In an attempt to find the answers to this and many other difficult questions, Matthew Todd explores why statistics show a disproportionate number of gay people suffer from mental health problems, including anxiety, depression, addiction, suicidal thoughts and behaviour, and why significant numbers experience difficulty in sustaining meaningful relationships.

Part one: Shame -- Part two: Escape -- Part three: Recovery.