Pgh Lesbian Correspondents

Hello friends!

This will be (I hope) an upbeat update. I’ll post another data driven one tomorrow.

My blog turns 20 on December 29, 2025. I am proud of that milestone. Most blogs endure 2-3 years.

To commemorate it, I had the blog logo tattooed on my forearm this past Friday night. See photo. I really like it, a reminder to me of this important part of my life.

The logo was created by my friend Harry Java in 2006 as a favor. He’s a retired graphic designer with the Post-Gazette. In 2016, another designer, John Carman, updated it as part of a blog overhaul. Then in 2025, artist Alicia ‘Zero’ updated it again to include more emphasis on the Q and T.

Zero also inked my tattoo. I ran into Harry two days prior out of the blue after eight or nine years.

That’s so Pittsburgh, right?

I have been pondering how to celebrate. City Council will (hopefully) issue a proclamation. My laptop situation has been sorted out. So now what? Maybe a steak dinner? A trip on the Incline? Media coverage? An art car? A very big grant from Pgh Foundation to prepare my blog for archiving? Hotel fees so I can go to the Creating Change LGBTQ conference in DC in January?

In other fun/cool news, my Instagram following reached 100,000 followers this week. That’s more than every media outlet, every journalist, and most Pittsburgh-famous folx. Only 3% of Instagram users reach this level of influence. I am proud that my work to curate and create content for my neighbor folx brought me this far.

I’m nearly at 150,000 on Facebook, 9000 on X and 5,000 each on Threads and BlueSky. My blog now averages 1,000 views every day. That was inconceivable in 2006.

Oh, wait – Facebook has “stopped suggesting my page” to new viewers. So that’s a shadowban of sorts to bookend the one on my personal Facebook.

I’m waiting for the sponsorship/reviewer offers to roll in, but nothing so far. The mathematical calculations of ‘reach’ and ‘influence’ seem ‘sus’ to my Gen X mind. Don’t tell the 14-year-old nibling that I appropriated his lingo.

Seriously, it is humbling that a middle-aged white disabled cis queer woman in Pittsburgh earned this degree of trust and investment from hundreds of thousands of people. Also, mind blowing.

In conclusion, these are hundreds of thousands of reasons I need to avoid selling this blog to pay for lawyers and housing.

If you need someone to cut a ribbon to open your event, wave from your parade float, or drive your dealership vehicles around town …

Thank you for helping me to reach these milestones, intentional or otherwise. It has been a hell of a journey so far.