This is My Birthday Week – 55 Here I Am!

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 is my 55th birthday. Woo hoo. Manifesting My Destiny My annual plan is to order myself a small cake from the Giant Eagle bakery (even though I’m very disappointed with their customer service right now – they make great cake.) Then I load up my all time favorite movie ‘When Harry […]

The Right to Marry is not the Requirement to Marry

Why are nearly 50% of same sex couples still cohabitating without getting married? This post is part of my ongoing court cases around same sex divorce, civil rights, and trauma. I have three legal cases and one additional legal action sort of floating around involving my work to Protect Trans Kids. I still need help […]

Turnout for 22 No Kings Events in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. We are Golden. UPDATED

Please keep sending updates on turnout in Western Pennsylvania. Source, too. I hear there folks were standing someone on Route 8 – where? That counts! I’ll create a clean version of the list tomorrow – Sue I went to the protest on Pittsburgh’s Northside with two friends. We showed up, found some shade, and plopped […]

How to Request Toys For Tots in Western Pennsylvania 2025

This is our annual (15 years)) round-up of Toys for Tots programs in Western Pennsylvania for 2025. I’ve done my best to sort through the available information and provide you what you may need to know. PLEASE click through to the applicable link to double check the details. I will update as information becomes available. […]

My Instagram Post About the No Kings Events and the De-escalation/Know Your Rights Training by the ACLU

Two videos. First, my Instagram version where I read off the 21 Western PA No Kings events. The second is the ACLU led training on safety, de-escalation, and knowing your rights. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sue Kerr (@pghlesbian)

Happy birthday to me. Next week, I’ll turn 55.

Content Notes: childhood sexual violence, grooming, birthdays, anxiety, cats I have birthday issues. Not a real surprise to long-time readers. Or my friends. Or anyone who knows me. I used to think it was simple anxiety. But through my trauma processing work and therapy in general, I’ve sort of had a breakthrough. Birthdays are about […]

All the No Kings Oct 18 Events in the Pittsburgh Region

**Venue change for Pittsburgh Point Park rally 2-4pm. See below. This weekend, Saturday October 18, Americans return to the streets in a show of grassroots resistance known as No Kings events. The first event was on June 14, 2025, when organizers estimated that more than five million people participated in more than 2,100 cities and […]

Legendary transgender activist Miss Major dies at 78

Known as a surrogate mother of her community, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy leaves behind a legacy as a fierce advocate for trans and LGBTQ+ rights. This story was originally reported by Orion Rummler of The 19th. Meet Orion and read more of his reporting on gender, politics and policy. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a legendary transgender activist, […]

‘Tis The Season: Seneca Educator Lenora Dingus on New Challenges of Indigenous People’s Day

“it also seems that this is the only time of year Indigenous people and cultures are thought of to any extent by a large part of the population.“ ‘Tis The Season Football; both local and National, INDIGENOUS people’s day – aka Columbus Day, Halloween and Thanksgiving and all the fall harvest festivals which often portray negative Indigenous […]

Celebration of life, second autopsy planned for Trans Intersex US citizen Ezra Hulett who died in a Dominican Republic immigration detention center

In July, I blogged about the horrific death of 24-year-old Ezra Hulett, a transgender intersex man from Upstate New York. Ezra died in an immigration detention center in the Dominican Republic on June 23, 2025 under mysterious circumstances. There has been almost no US or Engligh-language media coverage, a fact that strikes me as quite […]