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Writing Prompts for Pride
A collection of writing prompts for Pride to help you deepen your queer stories and characters, explore new themes and possibilities, and reflect on what it means to be queer... in all our messy, magnificent multiplicities!
June. Is there a sweeter (and hotter 🔥) month? The parties, the long days… it’s all just so… gay!
This June has certainly been a busy one here at Ellipsus. In addition to the launch of Plus, we’ve been hard at work on making improvements to the tool, some of which will be rolling out very soon.
But we want to pause (as we do every year!) to remember who we are, and why we’re here; to honor the communities that we belong to and love. Celebrating queerness; honoring each other; loving our differences with compassion, honor, and joy—this is what Pride is all about.
And we don’t have to tell you that right now—when so much of the world is trying to silence queer voices, explicitly erase queer experience, and shut queer stories and histories out of public life—telling and uplifting our stories is an act of resistance.
So here’s a collection of writing prompts for Pride that we hope help you deepen your queer stories and characters. Go explore some queer themes and possibilities, and reflect on what it means to be queer… in all our messy and magnificent multiplicities!
Becoming
Artist: David Tovar
Shelter
Artist: Rachel Droter
Artist: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Recognition
Artist: Jen Mazza
Artist: Anna Sun
Intimacy
Artist: Camille Deschiens
Artist: Holly Stapleton
Artist: Anthony Cudahy
First times
Artist: Dagou
Artist: Jeanne Mammen
Artist: W. Dechant
Futures
Artist: Michelle Nguyen
Artist: Chema Mendez
Artist: Ivan Alifan
Artist: Pater Sato
Queer histories
Artist: Jeanne Mammen
Artist: Arthur Ferrier
Found family
Artist: Paul Ferney
Artist: Gerard van Horthorst
Artist: David Tovar
Character exploration
Artist: Georges Rochegrosse
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