Author Larry Benjamin
@writerlarry
Bronx-born wordsmith, award-winning author of gay literary romance, and artist whose medium is the written word. #gay husband and dog lover. larrybenjamin.com
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
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
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
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 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
Even Mitch McConnell who set the travesty that is this administration in motion is now compelled to speak out. #TrumpSlushFund
Favorite Sentence Wednesday “As I watched her coming down the sweep of marble staircase, I realized she was less a woman or a mother than grandeur descending a staircase.” --from my novel, The Sun, The Earth & the Moon #writersky Photo by Celine Ylmz on Unsplash
FAVORITE SENTENCE WEDNESDAY "I looked around the room. The walls were painted a pale gold. The sofas and chairs were covered in a pale gold damask. The late afternoon sun’s bounty piled at the windows like bullion. The only real colors in the room were his pink lips and his red silk pajamas."
One of my favorite sentences I've written: "Hers had been an atmospheric beauty. Her aging had been like the collapsing of a universe. She was at peace though and cheerful when she took her ravaged made-up face and offered it to the world; a smile hung across the painted ruins." #amwriting
Just reached 58,004 words on my #WIP, which represents 4,000 words written in the last month. I was working on another writing project on deadline, in a different format and I discovered, I couldn't work on both simultaneously so I'm feeling pretty good about my progress here. #amwriting
HE is a story about two people finding connection when the world insists on definitions. About #LoveWithoutPermission At a time when America is debating who gets to exist freely, HE offers a simple answer: Love doesn’t need consensus. It needs courage. READ: bit.ly/4o9Wx0p #HEthenovel #blacksky
The #BadBunny #Superbowl half-time show was fire & roses. And love.
Seriously, I'm just here for the half-time show #BadBunny #superbowl
What happens when love doesn’t fit the labels the world gives you? Right now, America is having big conversations about identity, belonging, and what it really means to live honestly—at work, in love, in life. Discover HE here: linktr.ee/authorlarryb... #HEthenovel #LoveWithoutPermission #Blacksky
Cold fronts, snowstorms, and gray skies across the U.S. right now—perfect weather for staying in, slowing down, and getting lost in a story that actually feels something. ❄️📖 Find HE and Larry Benjamin’s other novels here: 🔗 linktr.ee/authorlarryb... #LoveWithoutPermission #blacksky #HEthenovel
The world feels loud right now. Headlines move fast. Opinions are sharper. Everything seems to demand a side. That’s exactly why HE by Larry Benjamin feels so timely. In a time when everyone seems busy defining, debating, and dividing, HE asks a simpler question: "What happens when love just… is?"
I received these as Christmas presents from my sister-in-law (and by extension, my brother). And honestly, I'm baffled. I've had 5 novels, a novella & a collection of short stories published. My books have won awards, including a #lammy Is it obnoxious of me to be a bit ticked off? #Amwriting
Think about this for a minute. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social has my vote. And its not because I stand in solidarity with my gay brothers, but because he is tehe best man for the job.
More than a supernatural tale, Vampire Rising is a deeply moving allegory about identity, humanity, and the courage to exist authentically in a world that fears what it does not understand. An homage to "Dracula," it also an allegory for the AIDS crisis. bit.ly/3M36puZ