Ryan Robert Gutierrez Flores

Ryan Robert Flores is a self-identified Bear. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, majoring in Marketing Management, and is currently working on a graduate degree, which he hopes would someday pay for TBRU, Lazy Bear Weekend, Provincetown Bear Week, Mad.Bear, and a leather sex sling that can support his weight (for, uh… research). A freelance graphic designer and photographer, he has worked with leading companies in different fields, but mostly in food (where else would a fat guy go?) by creating corporate branding and image development. A fastidious Grammar Nazi; a sure-fire way of driving him up the walls would be to say “For a while” (For a while, WHAT?), and other grammatical nightmares, without any proper context. He doesn’t like chocolate, despite being happily married to one who peddles it for a living for the past eleven years.

Stories By Ryan Robert Gutierrez Flores

Literary Pieces9 months ago

Good As New

On the things that we're willing to do to support the people we love...
Literary Pieces11 months ago

Edges perfectly aligned

What do you do to recover from a failed relationship? For some, it’s by finding another lover; for others, by first forgiving oneself; and still for...
Literary Pieces1 year ago

Come Up For Air

Ryan Robert Flores eloquently writes about what it’s like to love, and then lose that love; and then wallow in the pain that comes and lingers...
Literary Pieces2 years ago

Both Eyes Open

Some members of the LGBTQI community live in the shadows. Until they and the people they love start to get hurt.
Literary Pieces2 years ago

I Am Here

Have you ever been “lost” in a labyrinthine gay bathhouse? Here’s a poetic glimpse at its nerve-wracking – yet intoxicating – appeal.
Literary Pieces2 years ago

Five foot eight

Will you date someone who doesn't conform to the standards you set? What if - by breaking these standards - it means you find the one...
Literary Pieces6 years ago

The road trip

Ryan Robert Gutierrez Flores writes about tagging along for a ride with someone he desired, realizing at a certain point how “I could already see the...
FEATURES6 years ago

I am Wagyu awesomeness

Ryan Robert Flores wages a war against “fat”, noting that it is ironic how LGBT people who – years being made to feel broken, incomplete, or...
Literary Pieces6 years ago

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Part Two)

Robert Flores continues telling the story of Goldilocks – so called not because he had golden blonde hair, but because his name was Godofredo Oro –...