Flipping

by Ricardo Ramos

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.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Vampire Who Baked · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's not everyday that a publisher has to include a note justifying their decision to publish the book. Having said that, apart from the (often bewildering) racist diatribes, the book isn't really all that transgressive if you can handle incest and graphic descriptions of sex and some violence. Really great perspective on growing up femme and gay in the Pinoy American community. The "white-aspiration" is in particular very honestly done, or feels like it's honest at any rate. Pretty much every story and anecdote (basically the entire book reads like a memoir) is amazing to read, alternating between laugh-out-loud dark humour pretty much everywhere, and intense bitterness and grief while describing the violence and racial injustice that is often unseen and left unexplored.

The first half of the book is by itself worth getting a copy of it-- recommended!