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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!

Written by
  • Jamie Lawrence
  • Rex Mizrach
Publish date
24/06/2026
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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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