Pgh Lesbian Correspondents

Here is a list of the most widely read blog posts during 2021

• 84% of these posts are about the fatal campaign of terror targeting the trans community.
• One post is from the #AMPLIFY archive, the narrative of a local bisexual woman
• One post is actually the homepage for our ongoing Cat Food Drive projects.
• Another is about the February 2021 wedding of your truly and my wife, Laura in our backyard on Groundhogs Day
• A fourth post is about my 2018 hysterectomy
• And one post is a Q&A with local trans Latina activist Maria Montano who was voted ‘Best Thirsttrap’ in the 2021 Pittsburgh City Paper Readers Poll
• Several posts on this list were created before 2021 in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

This is a useful exercise for me to see what readers respond to each year. But it is also sad that so many posts year after year, posts about the murders of trans neighbors, are actually growing more widely read -I published 51st memorial post in the midst of writing this roundup. It is certainly good that people are reading them and, hopefully, coming away with some comfort or education. Yet the need to write them is also actually growing each year. That’s why I avoid the term ‘popular’ because it is a series of tragedies that fuel this list and that’s not anything to celebrate.

I don’t take for granted that anyone reads my blog (well, it annoys me that no one in my family does) so I appreciate a moment to reflect on all of this content. But this blog is more than all of the words and phrases and images strung together – it is a statement of visibility and representation – we ARE here and these are some of our experiences.

Happy New Year, friends and neighbors.

1. 16-Year-Old Trans Male and Older Sibling Shot to Death by Mother in Western Pennsylvania
2. 24-year-old Latinx Trans Woman Chynaa Carrillo Killed in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania
3. Update: The Man Who Killed Trans Woman Chynaa Carrillo Served Eight Years for Murdering His 20-Year-Old Cisgender Wife
4. What Happened to Poe Black, a 21-year-old Trans Man Killed in Slab City, California?
5. What Happened to Jessi Hart, a 42-year-old Trans Woman Killed in Oregon?
6. Black Trans Woman Dominique Lucious, 26, is the 14th Victim of Transphobic Homicide
7. 25-Year-Old Black Trans Woman Murdered on Christmas Day in Chicago (written in 2020)
8. Chica Discusses Her Bisexuality to Show Solidarity #AMPLIFY (written in 2017)
9. Black Trans Woman Dominique Jackson Shot to Death in Mississippi
10. 17 year old queer teen Bianca Devins brutally murdered in horrific crime in New York State (written in 2019)
11. 25 Year Old Black Trans Woman Shot to Death in Chicago
12. Body of 34-Year-Old Trans Woman Jenna Franks Found in North Carolina Community
13. 22-year-old Latinx Trans Woman Iris Santos Killed in Houston Chick-fil-A Parking Lot
14. 21-Year-Old Black Trans Woman Shot to Death in Baton Rouge
15. Black Trans Woman Alexus ‘Kimmy’ Braxton, 45, Killed in Miami
16. Pittsburgh Cat Food Drive
17. 28-Year-Old Black Trans Woman Remy Fennell Murdered in Charlotte
18. Going to the Backyard and We’re Gonna Get Married
19. 21-Year-Old Black Trans Woman Kiér Lapri Kartier Found Dead of Gunshot Wounds near Dallas
20. Black Trans Woman Fendi Mon’ezah “Peaches” Armstrong Found Dead in Georgia (written in 2020)
21. 28-year-old Black Trans Chicago Woman is First Reported Victim of Homicide in 2021
22. Black Trans Woman Angel Naira, 36, Killed in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania
23. 21-Year-Old Trans Man Shot to Death in Puerto Rico
24. 40-Year-Old Black Trans Woman Found Dead in Athens, Georgia Parking Lot
25. My #Hysterecovery Pants (written in 2018)
26. 25-Year-Old Trans Latina Jenny De Leon Killed in Tampa, Florida
27. White Trans Teen Oliver ‘Ollie’ Taylor, 17, Killed in Oregon After Being Kidnapped
28. Black Trans Woman Bianca ‘Muffin’ Bankzy Murdered in Atlanta
29. Maria Montaño Challenges Social Norms, Political Structures as ‘Best Thirst Trap’ Nominee in Pgh City Paper Best of Pittsburgh Awards
30. 23-year-old Black Trans Man EJ Boykin aka Novaa Watson Dies from Gunshot Wound

Most Read Post from previous years

The 30 Most Read Blog Posts from 2020

The 20 Most Widely Read Blog Posts from 2019

The 20 Most Widely Read PghLesbian Blog Posts of 2018

Top Blog Posts from 2017

Top Ten Blog Posts of 2016

Top Twenty Posts of 2015

Ten Most Popular Blog Posts of 2014

I did not track this before 2014