Pgh Lesbian Correspondents

As you may know, I’ve been creating blog posts memorializing trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming victims of violent death since 2013. I use a calendar year rather than the Trans Day of Remembrance year. A TDoR memorial includes a reading of the names of those who died from October 1 of the former year to September 30 of the current year.

Using a calendar year made sense for me because I started midway through 2013 when a friend asked me to write a blog post. I’ve written almost 400 memorials since that day. It takes a toll as it should. This month, I found myself sort of stuck and unable to write a few recent memorials. I don’t know why, but there’s both no room to stop and no room for error so I have to figure it out.

To learn more about the tracking worldwide of this data, please read this Q&A with Anna-Jayne Metcalfe who maintains the database.

To get involved with the folx researching these and related cases of Missing, Murdered, Unidentified, and Unclaimed trans and queer persons, visit this Facebook group.

Reading over 25 memorial posts is a lot to ask, but not even remotely as much to ask a trans person to simply exist in this world. The ‘number’ is lower this year because we’ve lost access to valuable databases and algorithms, losses that throttles the ability to find these folx. Today, I was bouncing between two police departments in two states about the identity of one person and we did not resolve by day’s end.

This year also saw the loss of a personal friend, Elisa Rae Shupe. That’s particularly hard.

Of course I think you should support trans folx. But trans folx do most of this particular work. Support them, too.

Deaths reported in 2025

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1. Tahiry ‘Tokyo’ Broom – February 9, 2025. Detroit, Michigan. Age 29.
2. Sam Nordquist – February 2025. Canandaigua, New York. Age 24.
3. Amyri Dior – February 21, 2025. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Age 23.
4. Ervianna ‘Baydee’ Johnsonn – February 19, 2025. Tabor City, North Carolina. Age 25.
5. Linda Becerra Moran – February 27, 2025. Los Angeles, California. Age 30.
6. Kaitoria ‘Kai’ Le’Cynthia Bankz – March 31, 2025. Autaugaville, Alabama. Age 31.
7. Kelsey Elem – April 24, 2025. St. Louis, Missouri. Age 25.
8. Shy’Parius Dupree – May 19, 2025. Memphis, Tennessee. Age 32.
9. Laura Schueler – June 7, 2025. Cincinnati, Ohio. Age 47.
10. Hope Lyca Youngblood – June 7, 2025, Los Angeles, California. Age 49.
11. JJ Godbey – June 19, 2025, Canton, Ohio. Age 26.
12. Rosa Martinez Machuca – August 11, 2025, Austin, Texas. Age 24.
13. Kamora Woods – June 25, 2025, Indianapolis, Indiana. Age 27.
14. Kasi Rhea – August 18, 2025, Lynchburg, Virginia. Age 31.
15. Blair Sawyer – August 11, 2025, Louisville, Kentucky. Age 27.
16. Onyx Cornish – August 19, 2025. Caldwell, Idaho. Age 18.
17. Karmin Wells – May 25, 2025. Detroit, Michigan. Age 37.
18. Aubrey Dameron – Found January 2025. Cardin, Oklahoma. Age 25.
19. Tiara Love ‘Tori’ Jackson – September 26, 2025, Charlotte, North Carolina. Age 37.
20. Dream Johnson – July 5, 2025, Washington, D.C. Age 28.
21. Charlene Cook – 21 Mar 2025, Oxford, Mississippi. Age 58.
22. Jonny Adamow – 31 December 2024, Seattle, Washington. Age 29.

Other deaths I’ve reported during 2025

1. Elisa Rae Shupe – January 27, 2025. Syracuse, New York. Age 61.
2. Chilendrina Gracia Dominguez – January 18, 2021. Reported February 2025. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Age 42.
3. Amira O’Neill – July 6, 2023. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Age 44.
4. Jay Lee – July 8, 2022. Oxford, Mississippi. Age 20.
5. Ezra Hulett – June 23, 2025. Dominican Republic. Age 24.
6. Blair Lumpkins Crabb – January 2025. California. Age 31.
7. Kyla Jane Walker – November 10, 2024. Austin, Texas. Age 39.
8. Jax Gratton – 15 April 2025. Denver, Colorado. Age 34.
9. Jay Floris – 24 October 2024. Stockton, California. Age 24.