Tucson Festival of Books

Bold and Unapologetic


These authors shine a light on diverse LGBTQ+ experiences and intersectional identities in fiction and nonfiction titles about chasing dreams.


Panelists
Edgar Gomez

Edgar Gomez is the author of the new memoir "Alligator Tears." He also wrote "High-Risk Homosexual," which received an American Book Award, a Stonewall Israel-Fishman Honor Award, and the Lambda Literary Award....

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Adriana Herrera

USA Today bestselling and Audie-winning author Adriana Herrera was born and raised in the Caribbean, but for the last 15 years has let her job (and her spouse) take her all over the world. She loves writing stories about people who look and sound like her people, getting unapologetic happy endings....

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Sonora Reyes

Born and raised in Arizona, Sonora Reyes writes fiction full of queer and Latinx characters for multiple age groups in a variety of genres. Their most recent book is their debut adult romance, "The Broposal....

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Books:
Alligator Tears
A Memoir in Essays
Edgar Gomez
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Random House
February 2025
ISBN 9780593728543
256 pages
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Heat and Run
A Steamy F/F/F Omegaverse Novella
Adriana Herrera
Nuestras Raices
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
November 2024
ISBN 9798345247853
152 pages
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The Broposal
Sonora Reyes
Romance
Grand Central Publishing
January 2025
ISBN 9781538766682
384 pages
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