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"A young homosexual man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery.
It’s 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon―handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction―takes a bus from Minnesota to Recent York City because it’s the only place for a young gay male to go. As he begins to settle into the city’s punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking abundant Manhattanites’ dogs. But it isn’t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him―and what he’s capable of doing in order to receive it for himself.
A lush, heart-quickening novel about family and art, sex and class, and the terror of self-discovery, Thomas Grattan’s In Tongues chronicles Gordon’s perilous pursuit of belonging from the Midwest to Fresh York and, later, to Europe and Mexico City. As he floats further into Phillip and Nicola’s exclusive cosmos, and as lines blur between employee, muse, lover, and mentor, Gordon’s charm, manipulation, and growing ambition begin to escape his have control, in change threatening to unravel the lives, and lies
Re: i'm a female & i'm (sexually) attracted to lgbtq+ guys
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Got it, so it does sound favor a big part of this simply has to perform with a certain type of guy (but not the only type of guy) you detect attractive.
When you want to be a guy in those moments, what is it, specifically, that you want? Is it to be fit to engage in certain things sexually? To have a certain role in a sexual dynamic? Something else? And when you state this happens when you see charming gay guys in your surroundings, are those guys who you know are gay, or who look a certain way?
With fetishizing or objectifying people, that depends on whether you view these guys as individual, unique humans or more as a blank slate that you can project your desires onto. It's also sound to reflect about what's attracting you to them and how much of it might be based on stereotypes about that specific group (it might be the case that none of it is) rather than the realities of that individual person.
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