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@brandowrites.bsky.social
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📍Chicago, IL 🇵🇸From the river to the sea🇵🇸 IG: brando_writes

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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Updated my bitmoji and it did bring me a lil joy
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
party theme was “prints” and I thought it’d be best if I made my own
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Toni it’s so hot
.5 pic of me laying shirtless on my couch in just little tiny gay jorts
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
last day of Pride month before we all have to return to the sea until next June 😔
Shirtless selfie on my fire escape
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Hope y’all had as wonderful of a Pride weekend as I did! 😌
Gay guy laying on his couch, tummy side down, only wearing a red thong
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Howdy y’all I’m still alive!!
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Big bautumn autumn
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Jae @heyjaeee.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Only Charli I know is xcx and she’s fine so
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
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Charlie Kirk: “It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment”
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“So do you think he’s dead? Was that a body double? A clone? Maybe they’re pulling a weekend at Bernie’s? Anyways, that dom top texted me.”
Mr. Burns from The Simpsons queening out on a landline rotary phone while eating a box of chocolates from a heart-shaped box with his vinyl records playing.
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Happy Labor Day y’all. May we all unionize our workplaces and shake the money down from the top of the ladder. 👊🏻
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Having a wonderful end of the summer, hbu?
Me on all fours on the sidewalk at night in a navy blue harness, matching navy blue thong, and white bedazzled Converse under a lit-up sign that reads, “Let’s do it again boys.”
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 18/08/2025
Now that it's been a few days, I wanted to share some of my favorite pieces I wrote for Eater over the 6+ years I was there. First off, I got to write a lot about the intersection of food and queerness, culminating in this piece that got me a JBFA nomination www.eater.com/24162871/foo...
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The Food That Makes You Gay
Too many people grow up fearing what food might reveal about themselves. Maybe it’s time we embrace self-discovery.
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Feelin cheeky hehe
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lerrrgan @lerrrgan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
just thinking about things
A sign that says “make Nazis dead again”
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Being gay and a writer has fundamentally altered the way I hear “Trade Publication” like damn trade has an official magazine now?
Confused reporter who interviewed Donald Trump circa 2020 looking at his paper then looking up with a puzzled look on his face
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Also hey here’s these
Upward POV of my chestUpward POV of my chest while holding my shirt up
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
New, from me, for Eater Chicago. Hamburger Mary’s has finally returned to Chicago. Great new space that’s as gay as ever 💃🏻🪩💅🏻 chicago.eater.com/openings/161...
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A Drag Icon Is Reborn in Edgewater as Hamburger Mary’s Reopens
The burger bar has persevered through the pandemic and political turmoil
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Biergarten betrunken meine Freunde
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
SPF 30 kinda evening
Me reading the New Yorker at the Chicago lakefront with the city skyline behind meMe on my stomach, buns out, on the Chicago lakefront with the city skyline behind me.
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I don’t get why so many gays are mean when you can wear flowers and tell people they’re hot and you love seeing them on the dance floor
Single bicep flex of me in a rose print tank
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Picture of pink hydrangeas against a blue sky in South Haven Michigan from summer 2017 with a text block centered on the image that reads, “Grateful I’m smart enough to understand that billionaires are the source of society’s problems and not trans people, Muslim people, people of color, women, poor folks, etc.” Taken on 35mm Fujifilm 400 ISO with a Canon AE-1.
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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.com · 11/06/2025
Damn 😶
Protestors holding a Mexican flag and a sign that reads "y'all don't look for missing kids this hard."
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Queer food is eating lobster mac and cheese in one of the nation’s oldest taverns where the founding fathers got pissed drunk as “Good Luck Babe!” plays over the bar’s speakers
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Imagine hating me and I’m just in my existential crisis void like
Squidward in an abstract white void with stray square tiles of various primary and secondary colors
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Grateful for warm weather at the start of this Pride season
Shirtless torso pic of me in jorts, red Calvin briefs peeking over the waistline
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 02/06/2025
Why would I, as a customer, pay $300 a person for a meal where the chef completely outsourced their creativity? At that level your own imagination is precisely what I'm paying you for, what an L and an insult to admit you can't do it and charge me anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/d...
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This Year’s Hot New Tool for Chefs? ChatGPT.
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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Headline - Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable 
Strap - The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would ‘kill’ the industry “Then die”
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Properly celebrated IML 😜
Mirror selfie of me doing a single bicep flex. I’m wearing a black leather crown, black leather harness, black thong, black leather Doc Martens, and a black bandana tied around my right bicep.Picture of my booty in a black thong in Smartbar’s bathroom
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The guy on the right wishes he could tell the guy on the left to be a little kinder to himself, to have patience, and to trust the process.
Mirror selfie of one of my first gym progress pics doing a single bicep flex
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I fear I may once again become feral
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Went to the beach on Friday and walking to the club in a tank top Chicago is so back babe
Lana del Ray from the “Ride” music video holding an American flag above her head with her eyes closed, letting it wave in the wind
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
There’s this hot guy who lives directly across the alley from me and we’re both cooking with our kitchen doors open stealing looks at each other and I’m 90% sure he’s gay and I’m 2% sure this is our meet cute
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Wrote 800 words before realizing I was getting to my point in my new column ama
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Beat my own ass in the gym today but it felt pretty good tbh
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Marina said “Selma Hayak in the sun” and she fucking ran with it I’m so in love with this
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Casual reminder that the MODERATE position is to abolish ICE, a rogue and dangerous institution that is terrorizing folks regardless of immigration status (which doesn’t matter to anyone who really cares about other people). The “radical” position is to prosecute every ICE officer.
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Ever since I was a little boy I knew I’d never deprive myself of a sweet treat
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
hey yeah so you’re like really hot you should live in Chicago with all the other LGBTQ baddies??
Illustration of a bottom and a top post-sex. Top is laying on the bottom’s chest while their bottom smoke a cheeky cigarette in bed.Photoshopped picture of a small monkey looking like a bonafide hot cheeto girl all-grown-up baddie chillin on the sidewalk with a long ponytail, black Pleasers, manicured nails, and while sipping a fun little beverage
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I love that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was filmed in Chicago, the pope’s ancestral homeland
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off scene where Ferris, Cameron, and Sloan are driving into Chicago in the borrowed red FerrariFerris Bueller’s Day Off scene where Ferris, Cameron, and Sloan are hand-in-hand with kids wandering through the Art Institute of ChicagoFerris Bueller’s Day Off scene where Jeannie is sitting in the police station meeting a drug dealer and bad boy archetype portrayed by Charlie SheenFerris Bueller’s Day Off scene where Ferris joins the German heritage parade
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I read this last night and woke up with the stiffest back pain I’ve had in years. Then I told my friend about my back pain via text and they tweaked their back while packing up their car shortly afterwards. Is this some kind of transferable curse??
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Why do I look bigger in this outtake than I do in the actual progress pic I took? 😑
Outtake of me trying to take a progress pic at the gym and instead playing with my Apple Watch
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Going to start sarcastically saying “yes” by asking people, “Is the pope from Chicago?”
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Dan ⚓️ @dan.hausofprophets.art · 08/05/2025
Chicago can’t get a girl on drag race but we can get a pope in the Vatican so I guess we won somewhere
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV announces all communion wine will now be malört, says he wants to know, “who’s really dedicated to the eucharist.”
Painting of Jesus Christ holding a bottle of malört
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Alex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
oh I see, when the pope chooses a new name, Christians are all for it and address him as such, but a TRANS person chooses a new name—
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
How it feels being a gay cradle Catholic in Chicago rn
Cunty tourist girl striking a cunty pose on a cross, sunglasses on and hair down
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🚨New Salad Alert🚨 Chicken Caprese Salad Salad with a balsamic vinaigrette
Top-down photo of my salad I had for dinner
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brandon @brandowrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Girl who is going to be okay
Selfie of me in my living room lit up by the afternoon sun
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