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Spencer Jenkins @spencerjenkins.bsky.social · Jul 17

Buy this book too. “Alligator Tears” by @otroedgargomez.bsky.social

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · Jul 19

Thank you Spencer ❤️❤️❤️

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jun 13

This is the page in the history book where future generations may ask, “Why didn’t more people speak up?" Don’t let this slide.

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · Jun 5

Tried to dance along with a Tina Turner performance and lasted one minute before collapsing onto the floor and lying there heaving...

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · Jun 2

DVpit is officially coming back on October 8th, 2025 and we have over 50 agents and editors excited to participate. Follow this account for all announcements and check out dvpit.carrd.co for more details and information!

#dvpit #writersky #booksky #weneeddiversebooks

Mark Your Calendars #DVpit is returning October 8, 2025. The original pitch event for creators from marginalized communities. Now on Bluesky! Follow us at @dvpit.bsky.social for more updates

Agents and Editors participating in DVpit 2025 on Bluesky. Here is an initial list of some of the participating agents and editors

Gallt & Zacker:
Marietta Zacker
Beth Phelan
Linda Camacho
Erin Casey Westin
Sandra Proudman
Saribel Pages
Andrea Brown Literary:
Kelly Sonnack
Jemiscoe Chambers-Black
Jennifer March Soloway
Saritza Hernández
Analía Cabello
Paige Terlip
Azantian Literary:
Shelly Romero
Carey Blankenship-Kramer
Dystel, Goderich & Bourret:
Michaela Whatnall
Folio Literary:
John Cusick
Gelfman Schneider:
Penelope Burns
HG Literary:
Wendi Gu
Jill Grinberg Literary:
Katelyn Detweiler
Mad Woman Literary:
Alex Brown
Danielle Burby
Chelsea Hensley
Neighborhood Literary:
Eric Smith
Rebecca Podos
New Leaf:
Jo Volpe
Suzie Townsend
Sophia M. Ramos
Trinica Sampson-Vera
Jordan Hill
Page Street Publishing
Tamara Grasty
Park, Fine & Brower:
Pete Knapp
Stuti Telidevara
Root Literary:
Melanie Figueroa
Samantha Fabien
Simon & Schuster:
Rebecca Kuss
Sourcebooks:
Mikaela Luke
Triada US:
Brent Taylor
Uwe Stender
Ashley Reisinger
Moe Ferrara
Writers House:
Alexandra Levick
Andrea Morrison

Follow us at #dvpit.bsky.social for more updates!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jun 3

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.

So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.

They opened the drawbridge to block them.

So they marched to a different bridge.

The latest from S. Baum.

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Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow

Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Your Favorite Osito @yourfavoriteosito.bsky.social · Jun 3

Bay Area LGBTQ+ folk and book lovers, rejoice!

We got a free Pride event coming up in a couple weeks.

Sharing books is about community care. In this world? The more we share knowledge, the more empowered our communities can be.

And sometimes, we just need a good book to make life better. 💚

Boss Idea House @boss-ideahouse.bsky.social · Jun 3

A Pride Month Special Event, happening at Town in Oakland.

Sip on some bubbly, bring a book, take a book. We're passing along knowledge as a community.

🥂 Free glass for the first 40

📚 Bring a book, take a book

💵 No entry fee; to support our work, see the next post.

Weds 6/18
6-9pm
@ Town

Flyer text:

SWIG / SWAP

CHAMPAGNE AND PRIDE MONTH BOOK EXCHANGE

Weds June 18, 6pm to 9pm

Town Bar & Lounge

Flyer text:

THE SWIG
There's no cover or entry fee; it's free. Just come through, and sip on a glass of bubbly:
It's on us, all for community.

THE SWAP
Bring a book that matters to you (either from your own bookshelf, or from a local bookstore to help keep them going). Leave it on the shared table, for anyone in the space to take home. Then, find one to take home, a title that someone else brought; maybe it's new, or maybe you always wanted to read it.

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · Jun 1

Read this in SNL voice

Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · May 21

Two days left to apply ✨

Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · May 13

Write your memoir/essay collection with me!

Starting this June, I'll be teaching a 10-month memoir workshop with @thewriterscenter.bsky.social. Details to apply are on the class page, where you'll also find a video of me explaining how our time together will go: writer.org/event/memoir...

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · May 18

Loving @otroedgargomez.bsky.social’s latest, Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays, which is full of moving, beautiful writing like this passage and more than a few laughs, too. #booksky #lgbtqwriters

“One of my biggest fears as a child was that I wouldn't be ready for the rapture: the day when, out of nowhere, all the perfect, sinless people would be sucked up to the sky and the regular ones would be left behind. I'm not particularly religious anymore, but some days it
eels like we're already living it. When I look around me,I don't see
any perfect people; just normal, flawed human beings trying to make the best with what they have. The volunteers at Love Wins, who are up before the sun is out to feed families in the neighborhood. Lesly and the students of Mirror, who insist on a life that is dignified and beautiful. The friends who housed and fed me in the pandemic, the co-workers I shared birthdays with in break rooms. My mom, who put on a pair of giant black sunglasses and lipstick to bring fruit to the ladies at her local pantry.

It frustrates me to think that the people I love may never be rewarded with everything they deserve, but I'm comforted by the fact that they don't let the current bleakness of the world keep them from fighting to make it a better place. Every day they claim their joy, dreaming out loud with me on the phone, dancing in line outside Friend's, marching through the streets.

I don't know what happens after, when this is all over. But wher-
ever they're going, that's where I'm trying to go too.”

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · May 18

Thank you for reading ❤️

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · May 14

Books I’ve been reading lately. I like seeing them laid out and tracing how one led to picking up the next. Usually not a horror/gore person in movies (I get too freaked out) but it’s been kinda fun reading scary shit, apocalyptic scenarios, monsters. Looking for more recs along that lane.

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · May 13

Write your memoir/essay collection with me!

Starting this June, I'll be teaching a 10-month memoir workshop with @thewriterscenter.bsky.social. Details to apply are on the class page, where you'll also find a video of me explaining how our time together will go: writer.org/event/memoir...

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · May 6

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Sam Herschel Wein @samforbreakfast.bsky.social · May 5

It’s not every day you get to interview a total dreamboat about their new book 🥲🥲🥲 check out this cute convo @otroedgargomez.bsky.social and I had in @foglifter.bsky.social!!!!

Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · Apr 30

“Tenderly sweet, heart-wrenching, and comical.”

Thank you @samforbreakfast.bsky.social and Foglifter Journal for such a fun conversation about crafting Alligator Tears, why Top Model was my bible as a kid, and as usual, my mom. ❤️

www.foglifterjournal.com/alligator-te...

Alligator Tears Interview — Foglifter Journal & Press

www.foglifterjournal.com

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Open Secrets Magazine @opensecretsmag.bsky.social · May 1

Our May 3 identity panel: @saribotton.bsky.social @brosandprose.bsky.social, Kari Ferrell, @otroedgargomez.bsky.social, @debbiemillman.bsky.social, and @carmenritawong.bsky.social
opensecretsmagazine.com/p/open-secre...
@duttonbooks.bsky.social @timberpress.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social

Open Secrets Live identity panel, featuring Sari Botton, Ella Dawson, Kari Ferrell, Edgar Gomez, Debbie Millman, Carmen Rita Wong

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · Apr 30

“Tenderly sweet, heart-wrenching, and comical.”

Thank you @samforbreakfast.bsky.social and Foglifter Journal for such a fun conversation about crafting Alligator Tears, why Top Model was my bible as a kid, and as usual, my mom. ❤️

www.foglifterjournal.com/alligator-te...

Alligator Tears Interview — Foglifter Journal & Press

www.foglifterjournal.com

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · Apr 28

TFW your literary hero emails you saying they liked your book 🥲

a young boy in a blue shirt is talking to a woman in front of a microphone .

ALT: a young boy in a blue shirt is talking to a woman in front of a microphone .

media.tenor.com

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George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Apr 25

I reviewed @otroedgargomez.bsky.social's gender-bending, genre-defying memoir, Alligator Tears, for @worldlittoday.bsky.social. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/all...

Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez

Crown. 2025. 256 pages.

worldliteraturetoday.org

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Apr 23

🔴The Myth of the 'De-Extinction' of the Dire Wolf

Don't be fooled by reports of extinct animals being brought back to life, argues genetic researcher Jonathan Roberts. The truth is much scarier

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-myth-o...

The Myth of the 'De-Extinction' of the Dire Wolf

Don't be fooled by reports of extinct animals being brought back to life, argues genetic researcher Jonathan Roberts. The truth is much scarier

www.bylinesupplement.com

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · Apr 17

“Empowering and entertaining… Gomez is able to keep the witty prose percolating even while chronicling a series of nearly insurmountable troubles. This is another winner for the multi-talented queer Latinx.”

Thank you Jim Picheota at The Bay Area Reporter! 🐊🥲❤️
www.ebar.com/story/154092/

Spring Books 2025 round-up, part 3: Obsessions, revealing memoirs & a ‘Wicked’ prequel

Here’s the third installment of our Spring books round-up, with thought-provoking stories from a trans author, self-reflective queer memoirs including one from a longtime AIDS-era survivor, and both f...

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · Apr 9

Amigayyysss, I’m so excited to be back at the LA Times Festival of Books later this month! 🌴📚

I’ll be on a panel titled A Life in Essays with Suzy Exposito, Manuel Betancourt, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal. Hope to see you there! @latimes.com #latimesfob

Flier for “A life in essays” panel with headshots of Edgar Gomez, Manuel Betancourt, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal.

Text reads: FIND ME AT
Los Angeles Times
FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
APRIL 26-27, 2025 | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Many stories. One weekend.
YEARS
De Los and The LA Times en Español present
"A Life in Essays," moderated by Suzy Exposito Featuring Edgar Gomez, Manuel Betancourt, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · Apr 8

Congratulations Elyssa Goodman on 11 years of the @missmanhattanny.bsky.social reading series!!! So happy and honored to be a part of the celebration along with Peter Trachtenberg, Mary Gaitskill, and Mia Arias Tsang. 💅📚

Writers smiling on stage, with Elyssa Goodman in the middle holding a Miss Manhattan tote bag.

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · Apr 1

In this alternate cut they get in an argument about Drag Race on the train (Jesse only watches the US franchise…) but they make up bc he has some Double Scorpio on him and they spend the night queening out at a 24hrs bathhouse in Vienna. 💅🚂🥰

A scene from Before Sunrise with characters played by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke on the train smiling flirtatiously at each other. Delpy holds up the book Alligator Tears, Hawke holds up High-Risk Homosexual.

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · Apr 1

What's the book version of an EGOT? National Book Award, American Book Award, Pulitzer? I'm trying to win a NAP...

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