Kiss Me, Straight is the story of Todd
Eisenbraun, a San Francisco-based flight attendant who falls head-over-heels
for Josh, a handsome—and hetero—co-worker. Todd’s friends, however—Katie, a
flight attendant-turned-small appliance repairwoman, and Marzipan Q. Thespian,
a man-dangling local philanthropist—think he’d be better off with his
love-struck neighbor Chris. Sure,
he’s fat, but he’s also handsome, a hilarious playwright, and a great
cook—what’s not to love? They quickly become friends, but Todd’s idea of
the perfect man is skinny and straight, and Chris is decidedly neither.
Josh may have a fiancée and a teenaged son, but Todd just knows he’s “the One.”
But if Josh is straight, the road to love is not; Todd is jostled by
internalized homophobia, body image issues, the glamorous world of sewing machine
repair, and a community theater musical salute to the life of Judy Garland
before he arrives at the realization that he’s been looking way too hard for
something he may already have.
Born and
raised in Denver, Michael P. Thomas has been a flight attendant for fifteen
years. Like Todd, he lived in and
flew out of San Francisco for many years, and has endured more than one
straight-guy crush. In 2008, he
moved back to Denver, where he lives with his husband.
