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Katya K. @kukureko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🪆RED SQUARE ON HEELS 👠 "Straight people have it easy. But there are other ways," Nikolay said. “Change your last name and patronymic. It’s your constitutional right. Any government institution will assume you’re brothers." #QueerPit #A #LF

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Maddie is querying! @maddieparkerbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

IN THE NAME OF YOU - YA ROMANCE Noah Kahan x Saved! 🌲 make boys yearn again 🌊 support girls rights (and wrongs) 🌲 dismantle the patriarchy 🌊 deconstruct indoctrination #QueerPit #UpperYA #R #C #YA #NowQuerying

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Holly Baldwin @hollyollybeeee.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Heart of Gold episode of Firefly🚀 FEATURING a genderless alien race of clones👽, SET IN a flooded post-collapse Philadelphia🌇! But make it a trauma recovery journey shared between a queer group of friends🏳️‍🌈 Would you save a world that'd only ever hurt you? #queerpit #a #spf #up #editors

Ooooh just the prettiest overgrown trolly car. Title overhead "WE EXPECTED MORE"

Underneath is "found family" and "gals being pals (and also not)" and "aliens & more"

Finally, bottom text: (Optimistic Dystopia at its Queerest)

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Katya K. @kukureko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“In Moscow, Bella was royalty by night. By day, Artur learned to disappear. In New York, neither of them was special. And that was the most extraordinary thing.” 🪆RED SQUARE ON HEELS 👠 #QueerPit #A #LF

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana is gifted magic that could restore life to her dying world, but the power might destroy her. Allied with a broken mentor, a ruthless noble, and a beguiling prince, she must learn if she is meant to save the world or if it is even worth saving. #Queerpit #F #CLI #A

A foggy street. Legs on rocky ground. A woman. A woman with dark hair. A man. A gas mask. A bird. A fence. Flowers in sunlight.

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Joey Polino (Querying) @jpolino.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

PRIVATE MYTHOLOGY essentials • Seaside terraces • Gay yearning • Tennis in formal black tie • Bare ankles above penny loafers • David Bowie records • Remembered intimacies • Long held secrets • A dangerous game of gossip #questpit #querying #litfic #lgbtq

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Joey Polino (Querying) @jpolino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

RATHMORE is a campus-set novel exploring the love affair between a professor of art conservation and his promising young assistant as the men embark on a restoration of Baroque-period art that erupts with accusations of forgery and theft. PHANTOM THREAD x THE ARTIST AND THE FEAST #QueerPit #A #LF

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Katya K. @kukureko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“At dawn, they wobbled onto the street. Two men in towering heels, wild hair and smeared makeup, heels click-clacking over the cracked Moscow sidewalk. Birds of paradise in a world of pigeons.” 🪆RED SQUARE ON HEELS 👠 #QueerPit #A #LF

In the background: real drag queens of Central Station, Moscow.

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Holly Baldwin @hollyollybeeee.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

✨WE EXPECTED MORE✨ by Holly Baldwin (REP: Ciara Smith) Queer and trans found family, first contact (and love) with an alien species, and dat gently implied political commentary we all love so well! Step aside, vamps. Giant nonbinary bug aliens are the studs of the future! #queerpit #d #up #sf

music.youtube.com

WE EXPECTED MORE

Playlist for that swanky cool book by Holly Baldwin

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Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Gay crimes! Trans wrongs! Enemies to enemies! Meet my #YA / #A #HF #AC #COA #HA swashbuckler!! A romp through a colorful, heightened historical playground. Can one defeat the patriarchs with the very weapons of masculinity? Well, one angry trans boy can sure try stabbing them a lot. #QueerPit

"L'entrée du prince de Ligne à Londres 1660", painted by François Duchatel in 1660, depicting the arrival of a great procession of ambassadors walking in fine clothes and riding in coaches, watched by a huge crowd of Londoners.
Text over it reads:
THE DUEL IN 1660: a queer swashbuckling farce. complete at 83,000 words.

"The arrival of King Charles II of England in Rotterdam, may 24 1660" by Lieve Verschuier, showing many ships with the Flag of Holland/States Flag. The grand ship bearing Charles II has his royal arms carven on the stern.
Text over it reads:
England, 1660: the restoration of the monarchy. In Charles II's triumphant wake, a Royalist family quietly returns, but not with their single daughter—instead, with their single son.
15-year-old Alexander—vain, hot-tempered, and warm of heart—expects to strut in as an aristocratic peacock. But when his ambitions are frustrated, he's sucked instead into intrigues of questionable honour and forced to reckon with what it really means to be a man.

"Man Writing a Letter" by Gabriël Metsu, painted around 1665. A Dutch young man, beautiful and androgynous with long blond hair, wears black doublet, breeches, and stockings and a luxurious white shirt and falling band. His expression is tranquil and far-off as he writes a letter on a table draped with an imported carpet.
Text over it reads:
Pray enjoy this tempest in a teapot, crafted of the purest tropes and set in the Age of the Rakehells, featuring:
glamour and grime of 17th century Westminster.
goofy action punctuated by primal screams of rage.
problematic characters for miles.
petticoat breeches parkour.
queer mentorship.
romantic friendship (or maybe 'tis just gay, oops).
boys who cry. a lot.
and somehow, everything turning out all right in the end.

Detail of "View from the Mussel Pier in Amsterdam", painted by Ludolf Bakhuizen in 1673, showing a peaceful sky over a ship with two gulls.
Text over it reads:
Alexander stood at the edge of the deck, one hand clutching the railing, the other fastened tight on the brim of his hat as he leant out over the waves. He was not much afraid of falling in, though he had never swum anything choppier than a pond. Rather, he was afraid that his Acadian fur hat, the most expensive for sale in the shop on the Kalverstraat, might fly off his small crown and flap with its feathers all the way to the water—which, like the sky, could not quite decide between blue and grey.
There was no one to see him aside from the sailors and now Klein, climbing up from below. Still, he had meticulously dressed that morning, down to every last ribbon. He’d had a very specific vision of himself when the suit was being ordered: the azure he’d picked was not just brighter than everything around him on the fluyt but even the true sky itself, and he sparkled with silver, when the wind tugged his doublet and loose breeches, and gold, when the meagre light managed to catch on his rapier’s small hilt.
It was imperative, one must understand, that he look extremely stylish doing battle, should pirates suddenly appear to satisfy his fantasies. And indeed, at fifteen, he thought himself quite the dashing young man—not the boy he was.

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Siobhán is querying! 🏁 @siobhandorr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

HEATED RIVALRY x NASCAR When rival drivers-turned-teammates Grayson and Corey are forced to road trip the season together, their biggest challenge becomes their secret romance and deciding what they want more: standing in the winner's circle alone or hand-in-hand. #QueerPit 🏁🏳️‍🌈

An agent’s guide to KISS THE WALL an 87k word queer sports romance!

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Olivia Bey is Querying @be-tweenthepages.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#queerpit #DF #A #querying Saela has a monster living inside her—but in a prison built to break monsters, it's the only thing keeping her alive.

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lauralaulwrites.bsky.social @lauralaulwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

When former high school enemies keep colliding in the aftermath of each others’ breakups, their unresolved romantic tension becomes harder to ignore. Introducing BREAKING UP WITH YOU, a decade-spanning coming-of-age romance full of wit, warmth and wlw longing. #QueerPit #COA #CR #A

A title card with a collage of noughties inspired images. Text reads: BREAKING UP WITH YOU
Adult Romance
LGBTQ+ adult romance
95k words
Dual POV
UK / Noughties setting
Seven breakups. One love story.

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Katya K. @kukureko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

RED SQUARE ON HEELS #QueerPit #A #LF In Putin’s Russia, drag queens aren’t the only ones performing. 🕶️ The guy in the darkroom builds surveillance tech. 👠 The drag queen is the son of a Dagestani wrestling legend. 💍 Your fiancée is in love with a man. 🗽 Times Square is Red Square with better makeup.

Nicky Jamm, a Russian drag queen in Red Square, Moscow. Real photo, not AI.

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Katya K. @kukureko.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Excited (and nervous!) for #QueerPit tomorrow. I’ll be pitching 🪆RED SQUARE ON HEELS 👠, a multi-POV literary novel about queer life in Putin’s Russia in the years leading up to the anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown. Who else is joining? I’d love to support you! 🌈 #QueerPit #A #LF #QueerWriters

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