Edgar Gomez
@otroedgargomez.bsky.social
🇳🇮🇵🇷 Author of ALLIGATOR TEARS (‘25) and HIGH-RISK HOMOSEXUAL (‘22) / Lambda Literary Award. American Book Award.
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Buy this book too. “Alligator Tears” by @otroedgargomez.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Buy this book too. “Alligator Tears” by @otroedgargomez.bsky.social
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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.
June 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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.
Tried to dance along with a Tina Turner performance and lasted one minute before collapsing onto the floor and lying there heaving...
June 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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 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
#dvpit #writersky #booksky #weneeddiversebooks
June 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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
#dvpit #writersky #booksky #weneeddiversebooks
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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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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.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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
June 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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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. 💚
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. 💚
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
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
June 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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. 💚
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. 💚
Two days left to apply ✨
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...
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...
May 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Two days left to apply ✨
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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
May 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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
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.
May 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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.
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...
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...
May 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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...
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!!!!
“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...
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
May 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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!!!!
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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
opensecretsmagazine.com/p/open-secre...
@duttonbooks.bsky.social @timberpress.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“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...
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
April 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“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...
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...
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
April 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
TFW your literary hero emails you saying they liked your book 🥲
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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
April 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I reviewed @otroedgargomez.bsky.social's gender-bending, genre-defying memoir, Alligator Tears, for @worldlittoday.bsky.social. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/all...
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🔴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...
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
April 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
🔴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...
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...
“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/
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...
www.ebar.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“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/
Thank you Jim Picheota at The Bay Area Reporter! 🐊🥲❤️
www.ebar.com/story/154092/
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
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
April 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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
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
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. 💅📚
April 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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. 💅📚
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. 💅🚂🥰
April 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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. 💅🚂🥰
What's the book version of an EGOT? National Book Award, American Book Award, Pulitzer? I'm trying to win a NAP...
April 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
What's the book version of an EGOT? National Book Award, American Book Award, Pulitzer? I'm trying to win a NAP...
Wowow super happy today to see this stunning review of Alligator Tears in The Southern Review of Books. For Floridaaaaa!!! ❤️❤️❤️
southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/03/24/a...
southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/03/24/a...
“Alligator Tears” Traces a Zig‑Zag Escape from Poverty
A review of the memoir “Alligator Tears” by Edgar Gomez.
southernreviewofbooks.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Wowow super happy today to see this stunning review of Alligator Tears in The Southern Review of Books. For Floridaaaaa!!! ❤️❤️❤️
southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/03/24/a...
southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/03/24/a...
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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
March 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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
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Had a v lovely, v gay discussion with @otroedgargomez.bsky.social at The Nonbinarian Bookstore in Brooklyn the other night.✨
March 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Had a v lovely, v gay discussion with @otroedgargomez.bsky.social at The Nonbinarian Bookstore in Brooklyn the other night.✨