“It’s healthy to take a break sometimes to be a fan and remember the larger legacy you’re a part of,” writes @otroedgargomez.bsky.social, author of Alligator Tears (Crown). Read on: at.pw.org/WRGomez

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

Thank you Spencer ❤️❤️❤️

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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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!

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!

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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.

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.

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“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.”

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

Thank you for reading ❤️

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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.

Flier for 10-month memoir workshop with Edgar Gomez at The Writer's Center. Headshot of Edgar Gomez with a blue background.

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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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!!!!

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

Our May 3 identity panel: @saribotton.bsky.social @brosandprose.bsky.social, Kari Ferrell, @otroedgargomez.bsky.social, @debbiemillman.bsky.social, and @carmenritawong.bsky.social
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“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. ❤️

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

Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez Crown. 2025. 256 pages.

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

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

🔴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

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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...

“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! 🐊🥲❤️
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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

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

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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. 💅📚

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.

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. 💅🚂🥰

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“Alligator Tears” Traces a Zig‑Zag Escape from Poverty A review of the memoir “Alligator Tears” by Edgar Gomez.

Wowow super happy today to see this stunning review of Alligator Tears in The Southern Review of Books. For Floridaaaaa!!! ❤️❤️❤️
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Skinny spiky plants with red tips against desert blue sky

Tucson 🌵

Illustration in colored pencil, colored ink and graphite of cacao leaves skeletonized by beetles.

Detail of progress on “Snack Time,” my illustration of damage by Chinese Rose Beetles (Adoretus sinicus) to cacao (Theobroma cacao) in Hawaii. Colored pencil, colored ink and graphite. #botanicalart #SciArt #tropicalagriculture #cacao #illustration #workinprogress