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@brandowrites.bsky.social

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Work published in Eater, Epicurious, VinePair, Wine Enthusiast, and elsewhere. 📍Chicago, IL 🇵🇸From the river to the sea🇵🇸 IG: brando_writes

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Feb 19

One, or two?

Selfie of me doing a double bicep flex with a black tank on

Shirtless selfie of me doing a double bicep flex

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 22d

Big bautumn autumn

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Sep 11

☕️☕️☕️

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Jae @heyjaeee.bsky.social · Sep 10

Only Charli I know is xcx and she’s fine so

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Sep 10

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Sep 2

“So do you think he’s dead? Was that a body double? A clone? Maybe they’re pulling a weekend at Bernie’s? Anyways, that dom top texted me.”

Mr. Burns from The Simpsons queening out on a landline rotary phone while eating a box of chocolates from a heart-shaped box with his vinyl records playing.

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy Labor Day y’all. May we all unionize our workplaces and shake the money down from the top of the ladder. 👊🏻

brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Aug 26

Having a wonderful end of the summer, hbu?

Me on all fours on the sidewalk at night in a navy blue harness, matching navy blue thong, and white bedazzled Converse under a lit-up sign that reads, “Let’s do it again boys.”

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · Aug 18

Now that it's been a few days, I wanted to share some of my favorite pieces I wrote for Eater over the 6+ years I was there. First off, I got to write a lot about the intersection of food and queerness, culminating in this piece that got me a JBFA nomination www.eater.com/24162871/foo...

The Food That Makes You Gay

Too many people grow up fearing what food might reveal about themselves. Maybe it’s time we embrace self-discovery.

www.eater.com

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

Feelin cheeky hehe

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thank you much!! 🫶🏻

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lerrrGHOUL 👻 @lerrrgan.bsky.social · Aug 6

just thinking about things

A sign that says “make Nazis dead again”

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Being gay and a writer has fundamentally altered the way I hear “Trade Publication” like damn trade has an official magazine now?

Confused reporter who interviewed Donald Trump circa 2020 looking at his paper then looking up with a puzzled look on his face

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Also hey here’s these

Upward POV of my chest while holding my shirt up

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

New, from me, for Eater Chicago. Hamburger Mary’s has finally returned to Chicago. Great new space that’s as gay as ever 💃🏻🪩💅🏻

chicago.eater.com/openings/161...

A Drag Icon Is Reborn in Edgewater as Hamburger Mary’s Reopens

The burger bar has persevered through the pandemic and political turmoil

chicago.eater.com

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Jul 15

so hot

brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Jul 15

Biergarten betrunken meine Freunde

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Jul 8

SPF 30 kinda evening

Me reading the New Yorker at the Chicago lakefront with the city skyline behind me

Me on my stomach, buns out, on the Chicago lakefront with the city skyline behind me.

brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Jun 13

tysm

brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Jun 13

I don’t get why so many gays are mean when you can wear flowers and tell people they’re hot and you love seeing them on the dance floor

Single bicep flex of me in a rose print tank

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Jun 12

Picture of pink hydrangeas against a blue sky in South Haven Michigan from summer 2017 with a text block centered on the image that reads, “Grateful I’m smart enough to understand that billionaires are the source of society’s problems and not trans people, Muslim people, people of color, women, poor folks, etc.” Taken on 35mm Fujifilm 400 ISO with a Canon AE-1.

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · Jun 11

Damn 😶

Protestors holding a Mexican flag and a sign that reads "y'all don't look for missing kids this hard."

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Jun 11

Second Amendment was meant to be interpreted as the right to bears’ arms but was sadly lost in homotranslation :(

Art by @bkd.bsky.social 💖

Beautiful human-made art by gay artist Boy Kingdom of a rear view of a jacked ass muscle bear

brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Jun 10

Queer food is eating lobster mac and cheese in one of the nation’s oldest taverns where the founding fathers got pissed drunk as “Good Luck Babe!” plays over the bar’s speakers

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · Jun 7

Innocently throwing it back in my existential crisis void