The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World runs 7.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Alan Downs (about 4.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.3 hours, it is shorter than 59% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,576 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World is an audiobook by Alan Downs PhD: a 7.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Alan Downs, released June 12, 2012, on the Social Science shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Alan Downs
- Released
- June 12, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science
- ISBN
- 9781611746464
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World as an audiobook?
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World runs 7.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.8 hours.
Is The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World?
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World is narrated by Alan Downs.