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

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...

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

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.

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. 💚

Two days left to apply ✨

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.

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...

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!!!!

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

“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...

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

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 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/

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

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. 💅🚂🥰

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...

Tucson 🌵

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

Had a v lovely, v gay discussion with @otroedgargomez.bsky.social at The Nonbinarian Bookstore in Brooklyn the other night.✨

Good news is I have an idea for an essay; bad news is it was inspired by a random man screaming at me at a bar the other day about how much he hates Florida????

Tomorrow night in Brooklyn!

Alligator Tears has been out for one month today! If you’ve gotten a copy, shared good news, or thought about it for even just one second, thank you thank you thank you. 💕

Half way through Jeanne Thornton’s new book, A/S/L, and already loving it. Vulnerable, tender-hearted, gorgeous prose, earnest and complicated characters, took me back to AOL times and playing Age of Empires/ catfishing zaddies on my kitchen computer. Put this one on your TBR 👾🎮

Had a lovely conversation with The Writer’s Club NYC about the differences between writing my first book vs Alligator Tears and how growing up poor impacts my craft and storytelling 🐊🥲 substack.com/home/post/p-...

Thursday 3/20! Come & be dazzled by readings from Jinwoo Chong, @otroedgargomez.bsky.social , @paullisicky.bsky.social , & Olivia Wolfgang Smith. With your trusty hosts @temim.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social , & books sold by @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social !

Woo! USA Today says Alligator Tears is “a big-hearted, humorous portrait of a queer coming-of-age Central Florida.” 🍊💕 www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

It's my birthday today babe!!! What I would love most is if you could give a little bit of money to @zebra_youth, an organization that helps queer youth in Florida. They offer housing for kids experiencing homelessness, scholarships, mental health resources, and more. zebrayouth.org/donate/

So excited for the Tucson Festival of Books next week! 🌵☀️ Come say hi, I’ll be on panels Saturday (“In Search of the American Dream”) and Sunday (“Bold and Unapologetic”).

Come through!!! March 10th we’re celebrating Franklin Park’s 16th birthday 🥳

I *get* why people are still on Twitter but also… girl why are people still on Twitter 👀

If you've read Alligator Tears, I spoke to icon and legend @mindahoney.bsky.social about the turtle passage in the Pulse essay for Harvard's @niemanstoryboard.org. Check it out if you wanna read about what went into writing that one low-key bittersweet scene from the book 🐊🥲🐢

Brooklyn homosexuoirs!!! Save the date. March 13th, @jackiedwrites.bsky.social and I will be at The Nonbinarian Bookstore reading from our new books and talking about queer memoir. Come throughhhhh❤️❤️❤️

PSA if your 8 yr old nephew says “Come look at something cool in the bathroom!” it is NOT worth it….

IT'S HER DAY: Cosmic Tantrum is out now!! 🔮 ⚡ 🖤 ✨ 🪐 I celebrated by asking @bonelesskoi.bsky.social, @otroedgargomez.bsky.social, Lena Moses-Schmitt, @taylorbyas.bsky.social, Leigh Stein, and @candicewuehle.bsky.social about cosmic tantrums, our child-selves, and what poetry can do!

Yea the state is crumbling, but I’ve got a 🏳️‍🌈, s*X affirming memoir to launch in 1 MONTH! Pre-order: bit.ly/AfterKept The gorg @otroedgargomez.bsky.social called it “…nothing short of a masterpiece. I swear this book activated something ancient and homosexual in me.” 🙈

A perfect snow day delivery. Huge congrats, @otroedgargomez.bsky.social! 🎉 Can’t wait to dive in!

at the top of the hour! @otroedgargomez.bsky.social and i are coming at u live from @therumpus.net IG account 🤡

It’s pub day and I have @queerty.com to thank for this beautiful headline and for featuring an excerpt of Alligator Tears on their site! Instead of a single chapter, they selected passages from throughout the book to capture the breadth of the story. ❤️🐊🥲 www.queerty.com/edgar-gomez-...

Congratulations to @otroedgargomez.bsky.social on today's publication of ALLIGATOR TEARS with Crown! Edgar recently contributed to our folio on writing about sex.

Happy pub day to @otroedgargomez.bsky.social!! It’s been a dream of mine to publish into the Florida Canon—thank you for making that come true. I am so, so proud to be your editor 💖🐊

Thank you everyone who came to my Alligator Tears launch in NY last night!!! It ended up so perfectly, surrounded by people I love, everyone eating donuts and drinking Papi wine. I was up all night handsewing like a goblin trying to tailor my Walter Mercado cape (!!!).✨

Happy pub eve to @otroedgargomez.bsky.social and Alligator Tears! 🐊 Great launch tonight 💕

There’s nothing better, on a Monday evening, then getting to meet a fellow Pinolero and celebrating the launch of their second book! Thank you @otroedgargomez.bsky.social for signing my copies and for repping queer latine voices in literature! 💙🤍💙