Toby Johnson

Ever After

Fiction

“What if the past had been a little different? Andrew Ramer is the master of mythologizing the human story. What an imaginative and insightful way to consider how arbitrary, evanescent and changeable our ideas of reality are! What if all those stories about unhappy homosexuals had turned out happily ever after instead? Ever After offers over ten such alternative stories. Seeing how things could have been different gives us hope they still might be different. And that’s what brings it about.”

Our Tribe Chanting

Men

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Tales of an Urban Mystic

History & Biography

“I love Andrew Ramer’s Tales of an Urban Mystic. Eli, as he is now called as an elder of the tribe, shares stories of his interior life—things people don’t usually share. Eli tells about the kinds of spiritual experiences I’ve always wanted to promote in my own work. We don’t see enough of this in gay culture, though so many of us have such rich interior lives. I was impressed with the storytelling—very easy reading.”

Two Hearts Dancing

Men

“In poems and stories rich with meaningful metaphors, Andrew Ramer offers the myths of origin for gay men’s queer consciousness that orthodox religion has failed to create and which we, therefore, must create for ourselves. Ramer both reveals and exercises the world-creating power of myth. Here are life-affirming, sex-affirming, gay-affirming metaphors to enrich our experience of our lives.”