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Lawrence Everett Forbes
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Black queer writer, painter, caregiver, and former game-show contestant. Current (2025) Lambda Literary Fellow. As seen in the New York Times, Newsweek, WIRED, and on Wheel of Fortune. | bohemiandork.com. 🇺🇸🇻🇨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🩼♿️
Pinned
Are You Mad? (2021)
5’ x 4’
Acrylic and gel medium on canvas
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November 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I want to see the Running Man for Colman Domingo, Lee Pace’s eyebrows, and a very vague interest in the plot. But two hours is a serious time commitment I’m not sure I’m ready to make.
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Join us TOMORROW, 1:30-3:30pm at Kensington Plaza in Brooklyn.
Your neighbors are organizing yo share resources and build community so that WE KEEP US SAFE.

More @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My latest for the Los Angeles Times, about falling for my building super. 🥰
L.A. Affairs: We stopped pretending we were just friends. But was it too late?
I once was new to L.A., and at first, it wasn't going as planned, especially when it came to housing. But then I met him — my building superintendent — and I noticed he had warm brown eyes that made m...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Smoking weed on the platform; feet on the train seats. I hate watching people behave selfishly, but what can you tell them? They see it in their politicians, athletes, celebrities, billionaires, and the people around them.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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so many horrific stories being revealed in grisly detail this week. take care of yourselves, everyone
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! 🥳

As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.

Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Great reason to avoid the channel altogether. 🤷🏾‍♂️
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users

(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Each year between November 13 – 19, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help increase understanding about transgender people and the issues members of the community face. 🏳️‍⚧️
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Nice to know NYT was sitting on these emails for at least 2 full election cycles. Really hard to interpret this in any way other than "they like Trump and wanted him to win"
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Don't miss the Hollywood premiere of Humans of Pride, a powerful film on the history of Pride in New York City and beyond.

When: Saturday November 15th at 5pm PT!

Tickets: partiful.com/e/6PiqPQDqyZ...
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Your new motto should be: if it’s fine for disabled people, it’s fine for me.
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Thirty-five degrees outside. I know this, because I was out in that 35 degrees AND IT IS F#CKING COLD!
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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While you’re at it with second chances...

Save the date for my next novel, Love Is A Contact Sport.

A Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, MM Romance.

Out June 2026 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social ✍🏾📚💕🌈

#Romancelandia #BookSky #BlackBookSky #RomanceBookSky
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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reward for folding all your 'zines, a crown! #NoKings #OnlyQueens

thx-1138, columbia copy shop, @meganpiont.bsky.social & brooklyn resisters!!
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I’m impressed by and jealous of the dude across me on this train rolling a joint.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Working in sales is great, if you like manipulating people. 🤷🏾‍♂️
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
My weed dude got arrested, and I’m…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Good morning to all my New Yorkers!
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November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM