Bøger af Anthony Ramirez

Though not without a little effort, Grayson has always known exactly who he is. Intelligent, witty, often drunk, Jewish, and deaf. These are the pieces of himself that Grayson cannot deny. From the moment he first heard his mother say his name at 4-years-old until the day he graduated with his master's degree and became a physician assistant, his sense of self has been unwavering. That is until Grayson moves to Willsboro to begin his career, where he meets Aidan, a nerdy engineer and friend of his roommate's. Suddenly everything Grayson thought he knew about himself is called into question. With an inability to focus on his work and a pestering pang in his chest he experiences every time Aidan is near, Grayson struggles to understand why life won't stop throwing hurdles in his path. It was years before he was able to hear for the first time, and years after that before he could speak like everyone else around him. Now, however, he has feelings for another boy, and unlike his deafness, there's no cochlear implant to translate his feelings into something he can understand. With a little help from his best friends Max and Will, as well as his roommate Amelia, Grayson finds himself on a journey of self-discovery to answer the question he isn't even sure he can bring himself to ask: am I gay?

In his fourth book based on his popular LGBTQIA magazine column, Ramirez recounts the stories of his own love life in this introspective look at dating and sex in queer Houston, Texas. From the man who showered him in urine, to the man he slept with at an orgy; the guy who fetishized his weight, to the boyfriend who used him for his brain, only to let him go, Ramirez holds nothing back as he discusses the difficulties, paradoxes, and shallowness of finding someone who doesn't leave a feeling in your tummy that is something ... well ... less than butterflies. But with the help of his friends, Ramirez navigates through his real-life forays into ropes, leather, threesomes, asexuals, Sunday Fundays, $10 cafe wine, Grindr hook-ups, unwarranted dick pics, the death of first dates, and Houston's gayborhood, Montrose. However, what he finds along the way is that sometimes the secret to falling for a guy isn't necessarily between the sheets of the bed he's fallen into with one. Inspired in-part by Candace Bushnell's own 1994 newspaper column-turned-book-turned-television and film sensation, Sex and the City, Ramirez's adapted columns are more than just a book about sex and serial dating. And you can bet that you never saw Carrie Bradshaw quite like this. Beneath the sheets you'll find him under, Anthony Ramirez is here to uncover the surprises in a sardonic and vapid world that are able to finally restore that feeling that has vanished along with those seemingly-absent butterflies.