Prepare to be Flipped. . . . flipped OUT. . . flipped OVER. . . . flipped OFF. Filipino-American author, Ricardo Ramos, has undoubtedly produced one of the most shocking and perhaps controversial gay-oriented books of the year. Flipping is an in-your-face, really raw, outrageous, hysterically funny, fascinatingly human, very politically incorrect story of a FiLIPino-American "Flip Queen" in search of a 100% Real Man. This unforgettable and daring book plunges in themes that collide head-on at the volatile intersection of sex and race in America.
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In this searing and frequently surprising novel, three Filipino males who have sex with males come to terms with their sexuality in different ways: one as a traditionally effeminate bakla', one as an open gay man, and one as a 'straight' man. What is most shocking in this book is not the explicit sex (of which there is a lot!), but the representation of racialized desire, which is far more taboo a topic in contemporary America than sex (even homosex) is.
Like the narrators of Peter Jackson's The Intrinsic Quality of Skin and Badruddin Khan's Sex, Longing & Not Belonging, the two main narrators in Flipping are not afraid to reveal attitudes that are instantly condemned by the keepers of political correctness. The dominant view is 'You're not supposed to have thoughts (and desires) like that, and, if you do, you certainly shouldn't admit them!'"
"To those whose internalized thought police want to shut down Flipping early on, I would say, 'Read on and withhold your verdict until you see what happens.' Several flips and several Flips lie ahead. What you read may not all be pretty and comforting, but what is most troubling is all-too real, however repressed discussion (and representation) of it usually are. The totality of the book may still shock you, but I hazard to predict some surprises of structure and character growth and variety lie ahead." -- Stephen O. Murray, Ph.D., author of American Gay, Angkor Life, and Oceanic Homosexualities
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This book is part of Floating Lotus Books' ongoing series "Our Voices in All Our Colors," which is dedicated to providing a voice to those in the gay and lesbian communities worldwide from whom we rarely hear. Other books in our series are Sex, Longing, & Not Belonging: A Gay Muslim's Quest for Love and Meaning, by Badruddin Khan and The Dove Coos II: Gay Experiences by the Men of Thailand.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Funny and moving, if you don't choke on uninhibited gay Flip,
By A Customer
This review is from: Flipping (Paperback)
There is a lot of sex, which will certainly appall some (but probably not those whose eyes are drawn to the hot Filipino on the cover!). The narrator's voice is so compelling that it's hard not to believe that it's autobiographical, but such a person probably wouldn't write, and Felipe is probably closer to what the author is really like. Or maybe Bantugan? If you can suspend judgement about the first narrator and deal with explicit sex, this is a very funny and ultimately moving first novel.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hot! and shockingly funny!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Flipping (Paperback)
The first narrator and main character is a Flip queen with some very backward notions about racial hierarchies. So backward that many readers may be to appalled to read on and see how he develops. Besides being VERY graphic he (and the book) are often very funny. For open-minded adults!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
speaking the unspeakable,
By A Customer
This review is from: Flipping (Paperback)
There is A LOT of male-male sex in this novel, much of it exuberant, some of it submerged by jockeying for power in relationships with the dominant (white) race in America. More than the very explicit sex, what is likely to shock is the portrait of a Filipino American's eroticization of white men and prejudices against non-white men. The main character works through some stuff about self-image and racial domination, though he doesn't know that what he's doing. There are also some fantastic developments in the islands of his ancestors. END
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