π#QueerPrompts are daily prompts for queer authors to have fun with, share their works, and interact with other queer writers. β¨ Host: @CJAralore
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ALT 1. Pride Month Begins: Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book (optional: & something you're proud of) 2. Something your character(s) are proud of 3. How do your character(s) overcome shame? 4. Character(s) queer identify(ies) 5. World Environment Day: Free Friday or does your story address environmental issues? 6. Do your queer characters have to explain their queerness? 7. National VCR Day: Any vintage/classical technology in your story? 8. National Best Friend Day: BFF(s) in your story 9. When did your character(s) first realize they were different? 10. Something you had to research for your story 11. Is your MC more likely to accidentally hurt someone or on purpose? 12. Pulse Remembrance Day: Free Friday or homophobic/transphobic event/character 13. Scene or snippet with "pride" or "proud" 14. Queer reading rec(s) 15. LGBTQ Employment Protections Anniversary: Any anti-discrimination laws in your story's world? 16. Character hobbies 17. National Mascot Day: What would a mascot of y
ALT 1. Pride Month Begins: Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book (optional: & something you're proud of) 2. Something your character(s) are proud of 3. How do your character(s) overcome shame? 4. Character(s) queer identify(ies) 5. World Environment Day: Free Friday or does your story address environmental issues? 6. Do your queer characters have to explain their queerness? 7. National VCR Day: Any vintage/classical technology in your story? 8. National Best Friend Day: BFF(s) in your story 9. When did your character(s) first realize they were different? 10. Something you had to research for your story 11. Is your MC more likely to accidentally hurt someone or on purpose? 12. Pulse Remembrance Day: Free Friday or homophobic/transphobic event/character 13. Scene or snippet with "pride" or "proud" 14. Queer reading rec(s) 15. LGBTQ Employment Protections Anniversary: Any anti-discrimination laws in your story's world? 16. Character hobbies 17. National Mascot Day: What would a mascot of y
ALT #QueerPrompts LGBTQ Dates in June: LGBTQIA Pride Month (all June) LGBTQ Families Day (June 1) Pulse Remembrance Day (June 12) Anniversary of U.S. Supreme Court Bostock decision expanding protections to LGBTQ employees (June 15) Anniversary of U.S. Supreme Court legalizing marriage equality (June 26) National HIV Testing Day (June 27) Stonewall Riots Anniversary (June 28) Queer Youth of Faith Day (June 30)
ALT Graphics: The background is the progress flag with a rainbow fist over it. The border has various pride flags, superheroes, and action sayings. Text: "June 2026" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom in a rainbow font. Center text is: π’Bluesky Quote post daily prompts and/or use the tag #queerprompts. π’Threads Quote post the monthly prompt list or my daily prompts. π’Instagram Tag me @cjaralore in your posts. π’Other sites (Tumblr, Facebook, etc) Feel free to use the prompt list on those sites however you want. I post the monthly prompts widely, but am not as active on these other sites.
ALT 1. Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book 2. Free Comic Book Day: Queer graphic novel reading recs or would your story work as a graphic novel? 3. International Family Equality Day: Any family dynamic you write a lot or are drawn to? 4. Trans History Week Begins: Any trans/queer history in your story? 5. Teacher's Day: What class would your character(s) teach? 6. Trans History Day: Trans/queer character with a mysterious past 7. Do you prefer a villain being defeated or redeemed? 8. Free Friday or what part of your story you came up with first (plot, characters, single scene, etc) 9. Emotional scene or snippet 10. Mother's Day: Mother figure in your story? 11. Aspects of yourself or your life you put into your story or characters 12. Hardest scene(s) to write 13. Is your story plot or character driven? 14. Sporty or athletic character(s) 15. Free Friday or does anyone get to see your first draft? 16. National Honor Our LGBT Elders Day: Elder or mentor figure(s) 17. International Da
ALT #QueerPrompts LGBTQ Dates in May: International Family Equality Day (May 3) Trans History Week (May 4-10) Trans History Day (May 6) National Honor Our LGBT Elders Day (May 16) International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (May 17) Agender Pride Day (May 19) National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (May 19) Harvey Milk Day (May 22) Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day (May 24)
ALT 1. April Fools Day: Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book (bonus: in a silly way) 2. Autism Awareness Day: Neurodiverse character(s) or reading recs 3. National Find A Rainbow Day: Free Friday or have you written something good happening because of something bad? 4. Any side character(s) who deserve their own book? 5. National Self Care Day / Easter Sunday: What would your MC do for a self care day? 6. International Asexuality Day: Asexual character(s) or ace reading recs 7. Make the First Move Day: Who would make the first move to start a friendship or relationship? 8. How well can your character(s) dance? 9. Character(s) with mark(s) on their body 10. Day of Silence: Free Friday or how you feel about scenes where nothing happens except for the character thinking 11. National Pet Day: Pets/animals in your story 12. Scene or snippet where it rains 13. How do you decide whether to describe the weather in a scene? 14. How much of the world does your story take place in? 15. World Art
ALT Graphics: The background is water droplets on glass with a rainbow. The border has umbrellas in the colors of the pride flags and clouds. Text: "April 2026" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom in a rainbow font. Center text is: #QueerPrompts LGBTQ Dates in April: International Asexuality Day (April 6) Day of Silence (April 10) National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (April 10) National Transgender HIV Testing Day (April 18) Nonbinary Parents Day (April 19) Lesbian & Queer Women Visibility Week (April 20-26) International Lesbian Visibility Day (April 26)
ALT 1. Zero Discrimination Day: Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book or talk about discrimination in your life or story 2. Read Across America Day: Favorite childhood book(s) 3. Did any book inspire you to start writing or inspire something you wrote? 4. GIF/Audio or description of one thing you and your MC have in common 5. Any funny typo that totally changed a sentence's meaning? 6. Free Friday or make up a text exchange between your characters 7. Any unpopular or obscure trope you love? 8. Daylight Savings Time Begins: Does your story establish exactly when it takes place? 9. Character with a green thumb? 10. Any birthdays mentioned in your story? 11. GIF/Audio or description of how lucky your MC is 12. How would another character describe your MC? 13. Friday the 13th: Free Friday or how you developed your characters' fears 14. Character green with jealousy 15. World Speech Day: How do you feel about monologues in stories? 16. National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week Begins: How would o
ALT Graphics: The background is green clovers and mushrooms. The border has leaves in the colors of the pride flags and green leaves, clovers, and mushrooms. Text: "March 2026" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom in a rainbow font. Center text is: #QueerPrompts LGBTQ Dates in March: Bisexual Health Awareness Month Zero Discrimination Day (March 1) National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (March 10) National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week (March 16-20) 2Spirit and Indigenous LBGTQ Awareness Day (March 20) National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (March 20) Omnisexual Aware Day (March 21) International Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31)
ALT 1. Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book 2. Groundhog Day: Any day your character(s) would want to do over? 3. National Women Physicians Day: Women healer(s) in your story? 4. National Signing Day: GIF/Audio or description of a type of nonverbal communication in your story 5. What do you focus on first/most when describing character appearance? 6. Free Friday or favorite genre to write or genre you'd never write? 7. National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Race and/or health diversity rep in your story 8. Super Bowl Sunday: any sports mentioned in your story? 9. Pitch your story as a romantic or friendship comedy 10. Is your MC a heartbreaker? 11. National Inventors' Day: GIF/Audio or description of your/your character's favorite invention 12. National Freedom to Marry Day: Queer joy and/or queer love in your story 13. Free Friday or have you written anything that surprised you or went back and said "I wrote that?" 14. Pink Triangle Day & Valentine's Day: Any forbidden relationship(s)
ALT #QueerPrompts Important Queer Dates in February 2026: LGBT History Month (UK) Black History Month (US) National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (Feb 7) National Freedom to Marry Day (Feb 12) Pink Triangle Day (Feb 14) Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week (Feb 15-21) Pink Shirt Day (Feb 25) International Stand Up to Bullying Day (Feb 27) HIV Is Not A Crime Awareness Day (Feb 28)
ALT 1. Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book. 2. Free Friday or your 2026 goals/resolutions 3. Your MC/character's goals/resolutions 4. Are your characters optimistic or pessimistic about the future? 5. Event that shaped your character(s) 6. MC/Character's favorite memory 7. GIF/Audio or description of how positive/negative your character(s) view their past 8. How did your characters meet? 9. Free Friday or do you or any of your characters have a coming-out-aversary? 10. Are your characters content with their lives at the beginning of your story? 11. Best advice a character gives your MC 12. Anniversary of UK lifting ban on gays and lesbians in the military: Queer fighter character(s) 13. What inspired the injustices in your story's world? 14. GIF/Audio or description of one of your character's phobias 15. Any goofy side character(s)? 16. International Fetish Day: Free Friday or character fetish 17. Something unique/you like about your story's world 18. Would any of your characters be a
ALT #QueerPrompts Important Queer Dates in January: Anniversary of UK lifting ban on gays and lesbians in the military (Jan 12) International Fetish Day (Jan 16) No Name Calling Week (Jan 19-23) Trans Prisoners Day of Action and Solidarity (Jan 22) International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan 27) Brazilian National Day of Transgender Visibility (Jan 29)
ALT 1. Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book 2. #QueerPrompts 2nd Birthday: Pick any past prompt or make up your own! 3. International Day of Persons with Disabilities: GIF/Audio or description of disability rep in your story 4. National Cookie Day: Are your characters soft, hard, or nutty? 5. International Volunteer Day: Free Friday or where would your character(s) volunteer? 6. Which character never quits? 7. National Letter Writing Day: If your characters wrote letters to each other, what would they say? 8. Pansexual/Panromantic Pride Day: Pan rep in story? 9. MC/character's favorite childhood toy(s) 10. Human Rights Day: GIF/Audio or description of how much/little rights your story's world has 11. Best/worst dancer in your story 12. Free Friday or queer holiday reading recs 13. Do any of your characters have a distinct way of talking or laughing? 14. What would your book's candle scent be? 15. National Cupcake Day: MC/character's favorite sweet treat 16. Does your MC/characters pref
ALT Graphics: The background is presents. The border has past monthly prompts and bows in the colors of the pride flags. Text: "December 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts", "You're a gift!" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom in a rainbow font. Center text is: #QueerPrompts Important Queer Dates in December: #QueerPrompts 2nd Birthday (All Month) World AIDS Day (Dec 1) Pansexual/Panromantic Pride Day (Dec 8) Human Rights Day (Dec 10)
ALT Graphics: The background is presents. The border has past monthly prompts and bows in the colors of the pride flags. Text: "December 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts", "You're a gift!" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom in a rainbow font. Center text is: Happy 2nd Birthday! (Below cake)
ALT 1. Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book 2. Transgender Parent Day: Trans/queer parent(s) in story? 3. Why you chose or didn't choose queer acceptance in your story's world 4. Any in-world legends of how your story's world came to be? 5. National Stress Awareness Day: GIF/Audio or description of how stressed your MC is for most of the story 6. On a scale of 1 to 10, how hopeful is your story? 7. Free Friday or trans art share 8. Intersex Day of Remembrance: How are intersex people treated in your story's world? 9. Cozy scene or snippet 10. National Young Readers Week Begins: Any queer-positive book recs for kids/teens? 11. Veteran's Day: War or family feud in story? 12. GIF/Audio or description of how well behaved your MC was as a child 13. Trans Awareness Week & World Kindness Day: Act(s) of kindness or kind trans/queer character(s) in your story? 14. Free Friday or trans reading recs 15. Do you listen to music while you write? 16. International Day for Tolerance: Ways your charact
ALT Graphics: The background galaxies and stars. The border has stars and planets in the colors of the pride flags. Text: "November 2025", "Safe Space", and "You're A Star" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom in a rainbow font. Center text is: #QueerPrompts Important Queer Dates in November: Transgender Awareness Month (all month) Transgender Parent Day (Nov 2) Intersex Day of Remembrance (Nov 8) Transgender Awareness Week (Nov 13-19) Transgender Day of Remembrance (Nov 20)
ALT 1. Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book 2. LGBTQ History Month: Any queer history mentioned in your story? 3. Free Friday or National Body Language Day: Do you add body language when writing conversations between characters? 4. National Cinnamon Roll Day: Any cinnamon roll character? 5. Banned Books Week Begins: What might someone try to ban your story for having? 6. National Coaches Day: Any coaches in your story? (fitness, life coach, etc.) 7. National Inner Beauty Day: Does your story address outer vs inner beauty? 8. International Lesbian Day: GIF/Audio or description of personality of a favorite lesbian character 9. Curses or bad luck in story? 10. Free Friday or World Mental Health Day: Has positive queer rep in books helped your mental health? 11. National Coming Out Day: Do any of your characters come out in your story? 12. Astrology/horoscopes in story? 13. Indigenous People's Day: What people would be indigenous to where your story takes place? 14. Ghosts or spirits in st
ALT Graphics: The background is pumpkins surrounding a stack of books. The border has broken chains saying "BANNED", a rainbow saying LGBTQ History, books wrapped in tape or chains, pride flags, and cute Halloween characters. Text: "October 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font. Center text is: #QueerPrompts Important Queer Dates in October: LGBTQ History Month (all month) Banned Books Week (10/5-11) International Lesbian Day (10/8) National Coming Out Day (10/11) International Pronoun Day (10/15) National LGBT Center Awareness Day (10/19) Asexual Awareness Week (10/19-25) Intersex Awareness Day (10/26)
ALT 1. Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book 2. Difficult decision(s) your character(s) must make 3. GIF/Audio or description of how much planning your character(s) do before acting 4. Who do your character(s) go to for advice before making a tough decision? 5. Free Friday or advice about your story that you used 6. Read A Book Day: Make up a book (or use a real one) your character(s) would read 7. Grandparents Day: How respectful are your character(s) toward their elders? 8. International Literacy Day: Use emojis to describe a scene (Bonus: post the scene to see if people figured it out) 9. What lesson could readers interpret your story having? 10. GIF/Audio or description that shows the vibes of your story's opening scene 11. Biggest change to your character(s) since you came up with them 12. Free Friday or did you add or remove a character after the first draft? 13. What's a major theme in your story? 14. Make up a fake career (or use a real one) your MC would be good at 15. Hispani
ALT Graphics: The background is a cat wearing glasses reading a book. The border has books in the colors of the pride flags. There are cartoon cats waving bi pride flags. Text: "September 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font. Center text is: Sep. 16-23: Bisexual Awareness Week Sep. 23: Bisexual Visibility Day