Author Larry Benjamin

Worked on my #WIP late last night. Now to decipher what I wrote... #amwriting

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In this episode of Writer Larry Unplugged, I pay tribute to my beloved Aunt Sandra who recently passed, and share my thoughts on death and how my thoughts have changed as I've gotten older. #Gaylife #CelebrationOfLife youtu.be/fNA02vO7chA

I give all the stars to @kandersonwriter.bsky.social short story collection, "Vamoose." Read my review now, then pick up a copy. bit.ly/4AXjISX #writersky #writingcommunity #Queerjoy

I create a playlist for each of my books, which includes giving each main character his own theme song. I've decided that if I had a theme song it would be RAYE's "Joy." #ideclaretherewillbejoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=invZ...

I create a playlist for each of my books, which includes giving each main character his own theme song. I've decided that if I had a theme song it would be RAYE's "Joy." #ideclaretherewillbejoy #blackjoy#writersky www.youtube.com/watch?v=invZ...

Iraq One Iraq Two Afghanistan Iran All Wars Started By RapepubLieKKKlans. Four Strikes, You're Out Motherfuckers.

Sitting in my doctor's waiting room today was the perfect place to catch up on my reading. Each story in this book is more surprising and brilliant than the last @kandersonwriter.bsky.social #booksky

You have to listen to this. Been there, done that. Ain't doing that again. They are channeling us old gays. Also sharing #GayJoy

This is Gatsby. We are at the vet for his brother Atticus's check up. Gatsby is here doing his best not be noticed hoping to avoid his own exam.

Can fierce, out femboy, Lincoln, build a relationship with the closed love of his life, Jose Calderon? Find out. Read "Unbroken," now: bit.ly/4vlXk1l #Queerreads #booksky #mmromance Photo by Honey Fangs on Unsplash

The romantic in me, writer of gay romance that I am, fell in love with this story. www.outsports.com/2026/7/16/24...

Join me and other Oregon authors at the Lane County Fair in Eugene this week. You'll find us in the Performance Hall. Come by and get a great book to read! #lanecountyfair

I love this @queerty.com I wasn't the only 12 y o ready to fess up to the obvious! www.queerty.com/ben-platt-sa...

Do it!

From the Philippines to NYC, gays name their favorite gay bars - buff.ly/TR4QIq1

It'll take generations to undo the damage of this administration

World Cup finalists Spain and Argentina rank high in worldwide LGBTQ equality - www.outsports.com/2026/7/19/24...

It's one thing when your own brother threatens to revoke your "Black card," but something else entirely when a white guy dumps you because you're not "Black enough." WATCH: bit.ly/3Tnt6xB #Blacksky

Why? Because it was he, because it was I. HE by Larry Benjamin takes its title from this quote by Michel de Montaigne. More than informing the book’s title, it becomes the novel’s leitmotif. Add HE to your reading list now: bit.ly/44YreOh #HEthenovel #Queerlit #blacksky #LGBTnovels #gayromance

“When we are all our honest selves and love one another for it, the world is a better place.” — Zac Brown #queer #gay #lesbian #bi #trans #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbqt #lgbtqia🏳️‍🌈 #lgbtqia🌈 #pride #visibility #quotes #hopecore #queerhope

The Sun, The Earth & the Moon, is an interracial gay love story that plays out against the backdrop of the onset of the AIDS crisis and is also an unlikely homage to “The Great Gatsby,” and Fitzgerald’s Golden Age. Start reading today: bit.ly/4te3GPU #QueerLit #blacksky Photo by Gabriel Jimenez

Five Great Quotations about Passion for Writing #WritingCommunity #writerslife #write #indieauthor #amwriting inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Grampy Eddie's death plunges Oren into a world of darkness until the love of a preacher's kid leads him to find his light. Follow their journey with the summer's read: bit.ly/44YreOh #blacksky #booksky #Queerlit

Lindsey Graham was single and purportedly lived alone. So, who called for an ambulance in the middle of the night? #ReleaseTheTapes

Hah! www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

Good for him speaking truth to power.

you don’t have to say nice things about lindsey graham we are past that cultural moment, largely thanks to the man he knew was one of the worst people alive and deliberately enabled at every turn he was a bad person and did awful things and you can just be honest about it

One down. Two if you count Mitch "Weekend at Bernie's" McConnell

He never deleted it.

The second point in the Nazir story is that ALL ai you use in your writing can be identified as being ai. Defending your writing from ai associations is now serious and immediate. Write clean (ai free) and document your writing with registered copyrights. #writingcommunity #booksky #ai #slop

Please share & watch. #WeWillNotBeErased

1970s #Philly: 17 yo Thomas-Edward arrives for his freshman year @upenn.edu, thinking he is ready for anything. Anything arrives quickly in the form of Dondi Whyte. Dondi is handsome, glamorous, and rich—everything Thomas is not. Is Thomas really ready for anything? READ NOW: bit.ly/4te3GPU #gaylit

My book is officially out! And there’s still time to enter the giveaway 👉 echopressbooks.com/ac-harper-gi... #Booksky #BookGiveaway #FreeBooks #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #BookCommunity #BookLovers #AmReading #ReadersWanted

A list of #BannedBooks to buy, with handy purchase links!

Part autobiography, part romantic fantasy, “Unbroken” invites you to step into this writer’s gay boots and walk his walk step-by sometimes joyful, sometimes painful-step, but always walking in truth and light. Discover your next great read: bit.ly/4vlXk1l #QueerLit #LGBTQ #QueerWriters #Booksky

“I like you—like I’m supposed to like girls.” That confession launches two teenagers on an epic journey of love lasting 40 years as they try to answer the question: what happens when you are each other’s everything and you lose it all? GRAB your 2026 Summer read now: bit.ly/44YreOh #booksky #gaylit

Anybody remember the movie "Soylent Green?" Well I say forget taxing the rich; let's EAT the rich instead!

“I would paint myself, a child, scarlet-red, an accidental spill of unexpected brightness, brilliant and sad.” –UNBROKEN Follow one gay boy’s fierce journey from bullied outcast to married to the boy he loved at 12. bit.ly/46eHg8u #PrideMonth #Pridereads Photo by David Garry on Unsplash

It’s the middle of #Pridemonth and it’s occurred to me that this month is about more than just us; it’s about our allies, too. So, in the video, I talk about my two strongest allies—my aunt and my dad—and how their support made my life so much better. youtu.be/tAbwYAD7cHQ #Blacksky #Queerjoy

In this special PRIDE edition of Writer Larry Unplugged, I share why as a bullied Gay youth I never wished to change, and how a first kiss at 14 confirmed that I wasn’t becoming; I already was. bit.ly/43XRwjc #pridemonth #writingcommunity #blacksky

Just read @noahmichelson.bsky.social 's article on navigating high school as a gay teen made me revisit my own high school experiences. In this post, I compare our experiences and am left wondering if being Black was my superpower making it easier to embrace my identity as a gay kid. bit.ly/4ujsvKl

happy pride month, queers and people who love queers let's make some good trouble and remind this nation who we are and what we're capable of

Happy #Pridemonth!

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RAYE's song "Life Boat," carries both the power and promise of an anthem and may be just the song we need to keep fighting against this current administration and the global crisis it has wrought. #ImNotGivingUpYet www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuZ8...

Read my review of T.A. Riddle's "Dancing Like Nobody's Watching." Set in the late 1980s, the novel carries the weight of memory... bit.ly/4dJ8VRk #Blacksky #BlackJoy #writingcommunity

"That’s what the process of writing Vamoose: Stories was like for me: a treasure hunt, a waiting game, a delete fest, a giant puzzle. It took a daily summoning up of trust that the right words would come if I kept at it. It took a steady joy in trying." I understand @kandersonwriter.bsky.social

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