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Matt Lavietes
4 months
NEW: Oklahoma's education department appointed Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik as an advisor to a state library committee. Raichik has been accused of instigating several bomb threats to schools in Oklahoma and beyond in recent years.
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BREAKING: Twitter has suspended the shooter's account shortly after NBC News reported that the it had been previously flagged.
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Matt Lavietes
9 months
NEW: Twitter has declined to penalize an account that appears to belong to the shooter who killed Laura Ann Carleton over a Pride flag. The account has posted violent, anti-LGBTQ imagery and remains live two days after police named the suspect.
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Matt Lavietes
9 months
NEW: Twitter has declined to penalize an account that appears to belong to the shooter who killed Laura Ann Carleton over a Pride flag. The account has posted violent, anti-LGBTQ imagery and remains live two days after police named the suspect.
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4 months
A man just threw an unknown liquid at me and said “that’s what you get for being a fucking fairy.” The notion that New York is a safe haven for LGBTQ people is misguided at best. Nowhere is “safe” when you’re a walking target.
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Matt Lavietes
5 months
NEW: The New Hampshire attorney general’s office filed a civil rights lawsuit against a neo-Nazi group on Wednesday alleging it disrupted a drag story hour at a café in June.
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BREAKING: The Department of Education is opening an investigation into Nex Benedict's school district for possibly failing to address sex-based discrimination
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7 months
Mike Johnson has previously suggested same-sex marriage will lead to people marrying their pets and that gay sex will lead to the legalization of prostitution. @JoYurcaba and I break down the new speaker's long record of opposing LGBTQ rights here:
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Matt Lavietes
9 months
The notion that a small business owner was shot and killed for displaying a Pride flag shocked the nation this week. But for years, the far-right has been stoking fears that the flag is linked to a trope that LGBTQ people want to sexualize children.
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10 months
What an honor! Thank you @nlgja for considering me alongside this group of talented journalists.
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NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists
10 months
Congratulations to Matt Lavietes for his coverage of the political firestorm in Florida brought on by the passage of the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, winner of our Excellence in Political Coverage Award!
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Matt Lavietes
9 months
BREAKING: Florida "effectively banned" Advanced Placement Psychology classes in the state due to the course's LGBTQ topics, the College Board said Thursday.
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Matt Lavietes
9 months
I'm 17 days vape free . For anyone who's doubtful of just how addictive these products are, beware. My concentration is shot. My eyes are watering like crazy. My head feels like chunks of it are gone. My mood is unpredictable, at best. Regardless, I know my health is worth it
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10 months
I’m on the scene at the Gilgo Beach murders suspect’s home. A group of men in white jumpsuits just towed what appears to be the suspect’s car from his driveway.
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Honored for my work covering the NYC gay bar druggings with @OfficialJValle to have been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award alongside this talented group of journalists.
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Matt Lavietes
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As a record of more than 160 openly LGBT+ athletes prepare to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, brands increasingly recognize the appeal of authenticity.
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Matt Lavietes
5 months
NEW: Hundreds of students at a Florida high school staged a walkout on Tuesday after their principal and several other school officials were reportedly reassigned over a transgender student’s participation on the girl’s volleyball team.
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3 months
NBC News identified 33 instances, starting in November 2020, when people or institutions singled out by Libs of TikTok later reported bomb threats or other violent intimidation. A must-read by the talented @David_Ingram
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Matt Lavietes
4 months
Journalists of color hit hard in seismic L.A. Times layoffs. A vertical the Times launched in 2023 to cover the city’s 49% Latino population, was gutted. Jeong Park, who was hired to cover Asian American communities in 2022, was also laid off.
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Matt Lavietes
9 months
Travis Ikeguchi, 27, was named in connection with the slaying Friday of clothing store owner Laura Ann Carleton, a mother of nine, in Lake Arrowhead, California. w/ @anblanx and @XavierNBC
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HUGE congrats to my talented teammate and friend @JoYurcaba for being named on Curve Magazine's power list of 50 LGBTQ nonbinary and women trailblazers. If you're not already reading their powerful reporting, trust me, you should be.
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Matt Lavietes
4 months
More than 1 in 4 Gen Z adults in the U.S. identify as LGBTQ, dwarfing the percentages of LGBTQ Americans in older age groups, a new survey has found.
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Matt Lavietes
9 months
BREAKING: A suspect was arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of O'Shae Sibley, law enforcement sources say.
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Matt Lavietes
8 months
NEW: A federal judge struck down a Texas law that LGBTQ advocates feared would ban drag shows in the state and imprison performers.
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Matt Lavietes
9 months
NEW: The 27-year-old man who police say shot and killed a California business owner over a Pride flag draped in her store appears to have had a yearslong history of posting disturbing — and often violent — anti-LGBTQ messages on social media.
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Matt Lavietes
4 months
A leading LGBTQ activist in Uganda, Steven Kabuye, was stabbed and is currently in critical condition. Uganda enacted one of the world’s most draconian anti-LGBTQ laws last year, which prescribes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts.
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Matt Lavietes
9 months
Beyoncé honored a 28-year-old gay man, O'Shae Sibley, who was dancing to her music just before being stabbed to death in Brooklyn, New York, over the weekend.
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