Andrew Ramer


Biography

Andrew Ramer lives in the Imaginal Republic of San Francisco. He is a member of Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, where he facilitated weekly Torah Study for many years and co-facilitated Queer Torah Study. In addition to serving as a conversion mentor he coached twenty-six bat and bar mitzvah students writing their sermons, and was a major contributor to Sha’ar Zahav’s newly published siddur.

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Books

Two Flutes Playing    by Andrew Ramer
Price: $6.99 USD. 61880 words. Published by Lethe Press  on March 5, 2011. Nonfiction.

A classic of gay mythopoesis. Michael Bails writing an unsolicited review on the amazon.com site says: "I was recommended this book after having taken a Body Electric workshop a few weeks before. From the first page I began to re-live the entire bonding rituals that we had experienced over that weekend. How to connect, how to communicate, and how to intimately bond on a higher plane!"
Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval and Modern Jewish Stories    by Andrew Ramer
Price: $7.99 USD. 47060 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 31, 2010. Nonfiction.

Andrew Ramer’s new book, Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories, grapples with traditional midrashim, plays with homoerotic love poems from medieval Spain, and envisions alternate versions of the present. Inspired by the pioneering work of Jewish feminists, working with the narrative tools of the rabbis of old, Ramer has crafted stories that anchor LGBT lives.

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