Irrespective of how John feels, his words are simply not compatible with an inclusive prize that celebrates all LGBTQ+ people. Just like a racist statement would not be allowed in a prize for writers of colour, or a sexist statement tolerated for a prize for feminist writers. /11
August 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Irrespective of how John feels, his words are simply not compatible with an inclusive prize that celebrates all LGBTQ+ people. Just like a racist statement would not be allowed in a prize for writers of colour, or a sexist statement tolerated for a prize for feminist writers. /11
If all the disabled, poc, women, and lgbtq inventors/engineers/scientists/artists/writers/activists were banished from history, humans would still be grunting and banging rocks against other rocks.
July 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If all the disabled, poc, women, and lgbtq inventors/engineers/scientists/artists/writers/activists were banished from history, humans would still be grunting and banging rocks against other rocks.
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In the hands of legendary writers.
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September 29, 2026 at 5:05 PM
LGBTQ Global Book Odyssey
Queer, everywhere, always.
In the hands of legendary writers.
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Queer, everywhere, always.
In the hands of legendary writers.
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I'm shutting down my social media for the weekend so I'll leave you with this: Black LGBTQ+ ownvoices stories are needed now more than ever. Keep writing, and keep supporting Black LGBTQ+ writers.
January 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I'm shutting down my social media for the weekend so I'll leave you with this: Black LGBTQ+ ownvoices stories are needed now more than ever. Keep writing, and keep supporting Black LGBTQ+ writers.
"Across China, authorities have been interrogating dozens of writers -- many of them young women -- who published gay erotic novels online, in what appears to be the largest police roundup of its kind to date."
China LGBTQ Crackdown: Dozens of 'Boys' Love' Writers Arrested Over Online Novels
LGBTQ Censorship: China detains dozens of authors—mostly women—for writing gay erotic fiction online, sparking global outcry over creative freedom.
www.deccanherald.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"Across China, authorities have been interrogating dozens of writers -- many of them young women -- who published gay erotic novels online, in what appears to be the largest police roundup of its kind to date."
Librarians pressured to remove books by LGBTQ+ writers. Librarians harrassed at work for putting LGBTQ+ stories on their shelves. This is the UK-not Hungary, not USA. It's here and now. What can you do? Invite LGBTQ+ writers to your schools and libraries.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Librarians pressured to remove books by LGBTQ+ writers. Librarians harrassed at work for putting LGBTQ+ stories on their shelves. This is the UK-not Hungary, not USA. It's here and now. What can you do? Invite LGBTQ+ writers to your schools and libraries.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
we need to free lgbtq writers from the yassified fairytale/myth retelling genre
ENOUGH
ENOUGH
January 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
we need to free lgbtq writers from the yassified fairytale/myth retelling genre
ENOUGH
ENOUGH
Hey Friends! I’m Mo, Director of Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools Program serving K-12 public schools in New York City. We bring LGBTQ+ books and their authors into school classrooms across all five boroughs in-person or virtually. Thread! lambdaliterary.org/lgbtq-writer... #LGBTQ+YOUTH
LGBTQ Writers in Schools
Since 2015, Lambda Literary and the NYC Department of Education have worked together to bring LGBTQ+ writers into classrooms across New York City. The LGBTQ Writers in Schools Program provides critica...
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January 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Hey Friends! I’m Mo, Director of Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools Program serving K-12 public schools in New York City. We bring LGBTQ+ books and their authors into school classrooms across all five boroughs in-person or virtually. Thread! lambdaliterary.org/lgbtq-writer... #LGBTQ+YOUTH
"The mission of the Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program is to provide writers who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled writers, and writers over the age of 50 with the tools and education to become a writers’ assistant and script coordinator." Apply below!
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Writers' Access Support Staff Training Program — The Writers Guild Foundation
The Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program is a community program initiative to support the full inclusion and employment of underrepresented groups in the television industry, providing write...
www.wgfoundation.org
September 10, 2026 at 9:12 PM
"The mission of the Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program is to provide writers who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled writers, and writers over the age of 50 with the tools and education to become a writers’ assistant and script coordinator." Apply below!
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Jacob Tierney has been honored with the showrunner award in the 3rd Annual Celebration of LGBTQ+ Cinema & Television! ✨🏳️🌈
This celebration recognizes outstanding achievements across the LGBTQ+ entertainment community, spotlighting the stars, creators, and writers behind acclaimed projects.
This celebration recognizes outstanding achievements across the LGBTQ+ entertainment community, spotlighting the stars, creators, and writers behind acclaimed projects.
April 7, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Jacob Tierney has been honored with the showrunner award in the 3rd Annual Celebration of LGBTQ+ Cinema & Television! ✨🏳️🌈
This celebration recognizes outstanding achievements across the LGBTQ+ entertainment community, spotlighting the stars, creators, and writers behind acclaimed projects.
This celebration recognizes outstanding achievements across the LGBTQ+ entertainment community, spotlighting the stars, creators, and writers behind acclaimed projects.
This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!
February 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!
Genuinely, where are LGBTQ+ writers and artists supposed to go?
You were literally the last place I had.
You were literally the last place I had.
July 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Genuinely, where are LGBTQ+ writers and artists supposed to go?
You were literally the last place I had.
You were literally the last place I had.
I feel like I should post a grand statement about Itch and trying to help authors figure out other ways to sell their books. Maybe I will soon
But for now: Fuck Itch, fuck MasterCard and Visa, fuck Collective Shout
We support NSFW writers, LGBTQ+ writers, and all marginalized writers
But for now: Fuck Itch, fuck MasterCard and Visa, fuck Collective Shout
We support NSFW writers, LGBTQ+ writers, and all marginalized writers
July 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I feel like I should post a grand statement about Itch and trying to help authors figure out other ways to sell their books. Maybe I will soon
But for now: Fuck Itch, fuck MasterCard and Visa, fuck Collective Shout
We support NSFW writers, LGBTQ+ writers, and all marginalized writers
But for now: Fuck Itch, fuck MasterCard and Visa, fuck Collective Shout
We support NSFW writers, LGBTQ+ writers, and all marginalized writers
📚We're reopening to unagented manuscripts in January. We really encourage LGBTQ+ folk, marginalised and underrepresented writers, disabled, non-London based authors, authors over 40, and writers from working class backgrounds to submit to us.
November 20, 2024 at 10:17 AM
📚We're reopening to unagented manuscripts in January. We really encourage LGBTQ+ folk, marginalised and underrepresented writers, disabled, non-London based authors, authors over 40, and writers from working class backgrounds to submit to us.
We have a story planned for tomorrow morning about how LGBTQ+ writers are coming together en masse to reject the decision by an LGBTQ+ writing prize to announce an anti-trans gay writer on their longlist.
Working on a story about this now.
I reached out to another author on the longlist who I happen to know, and that person is also in the process of pulling out.
(Though it was on the record and likely to be public before I pub, on principle I'm not scooping myself on social by saying who.)
I reached out to another author on the longlist who I happen to know, and that person is also in the process of pulling out.
(Though it was on the record and likely to be public before I pub, on principle I'm not scooping myself on social by saying who.)
UPDATE: 10 of the 24 longlisted authors have now withdrawn from the Polari Prize.
First Book:
Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire
Main award:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth
Judging panel:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes
First Book:
Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire
Main award:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth
Judging panel:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes
August 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
We have a story planned for tomorrow morning about how LGBTQ+ writers are coming together en masse to reject the decision by an LGBTQ+ writing prize to announce an anti-trans gay writer on their longlist.
Oh gosh. I'm #6 on this list. Right after...um...James Baldwin...
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www.britannica.com/list/9-queer...
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www.britannica.com/list/9-queer...
13 LGBTQ Writers You Should Read | Britannica
This Encyclopaedia Britannica Literature list features 13 writers of queer literature.
www.britannica.com
June 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Oh gosh. I'm #6 on this list. Right after...um...James Baldwin...
✨🏳️⚧️✨
www.britannica.com/list/9-queer...
✨🏳️⚧️✨
www.britannica.com/list/9-queer...
‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movie characters
‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movie characters
From gritty criminals to teens coming to terms with their identity, Pride month sees Guardian writers on their most beloved queer characters
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2026 at 11:31 AM
‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movie characters
🌈 LGBTQ+ Writers Starter Pack! 🌈
Feb Update 1
This pack is full of amazing LGBTQ+ writers, please give them a follow and help them be seen on Bluesky!
Recently added 4 more (see below)! Now 18 total!
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Feb Update 1
This pack is full of amazing LGBTQ+ writers, please give them a follow and help them be seen on Bluesky!
Recently added 4 more (see below)! Now 18 total!
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February 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
🌈 LGBTQ+ Writers Starter Pack! 🌈
Feb Update 1
This pack is full of amazing LGBTQ+ writers, please give them a follow and help them be seen on Bluesky!
Recently added 4 more (see below)! Now 18 total!
Help support our LGBTQ+ writers!
go.bsky.app/M2yT5eU
#lgbtq #writer #starterpacks #booksky
Feb Update 1
This pack is full of amazing LGBTQ+ writers, please give them a follow and help them be seen on Bluesky!
Recently added 4 more (see below)! Now 18 total!
Help support our LGBTQ+ writers!
go.bsky.app/M2yT5eU
#lgbtq #writer #starterpacks #booksky
Hiiii I also run the Lammy Awards and their associated special cash prizes for LGBTQ+ writers of various topics and places in their careers. We close 2/16. $1500-$4000 is offered per prize. lambdaliterary.org/awards/speci...
Special Prizes
At each year’s Lammys, special awards are given to individuals in LGBTQ literature and publishing, emerging LGBTQ writers, and more.
lambdaliterary.org
January 29, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Hiiii I also run the Lammy Awards and their associated special cash prizes for LGBTQ+ writers of various topics and places in their careers. We close 2/16. $1500-$4000 is offered per prize. lambdaliterary.org/awards/speci...
I wrote about the decision myself and other authors took to withdraw from the longlist of the Polari Book Prizes for LGBTQ+ writers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye
The Polari first book prize claims to promote trans rights and trans voices. But when I saw the longlist, I had to act, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I wrote about the decision myself and other authors took to withdraw from the longlist of the Polari Book Prizes for LGBTQ+ writers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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1 of these guys has supported LGBTQ people, clean energy, public transportation, & fundraised for Dems in purple districts.
The other is universally called “a class act ™️😌” by baseball writers.
The other is universally called “a class act ™️😌” by baseball writers.
Clayton Kershaw and Max Scherzer will face off tomorrow night for just the second time in regular season history
The other matchup was September 7, 2008, when fans expected to see Greg Maddux vs. Randy Johnson
The other matchup was September 7, 2008, when fans expected to see Greg Maddux vs. Randy Johnson
August 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
1 of these guys has supported LGBTQ people, clean energy, public transportation, & fundraised for Dems in purple districts.
The other is universally called “a class act ™️😌” by baseball writers.
The other is universally called “a class act ™️😌” by baseball writers.