Sue is the founder of Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents blog, established in 2005.. She has an MSW from the University in Pittsburgh and a BA in Political Science from Marymount University. Her undergraduate claim to fame is a six month stint as an intern with then Congressman Rick Santorum in 1991. Born and raised in West Mifflin, Sue attended college in Washington DC, then graduate school in Louisiana and ended up in Kentucky doing social service ministry. She returned to Pittsburgh in 1997. She now lives on Pittsburgh’s Northside with her wife, Laura. She was among the first out LGBTQ people named to Pittsburgh’s 40 Under 40 in 2004 and is a graduate of Leadership Development Initiative Class VII. After being fully and permanently disabled in 2010, Sue has continued to serve the community. She founded the Pittsburgh Tote Bag Project to address hunger and environmental issues. In 2015, she launched the #AMPLIFY LGBTQ archive in conjunction with a two-year artist in residence stint with Most Wanted Fine Art. Sue and her wife have fostered over 25 kittens through Pittsburgh CAT and Homeless Cat Management Team, and now manage multiple community cat colonies in their neighborhood. In 2020, Sue cofounded the Pittsburgh MasQUe ProjecT to support the queer and trans community during the pandemic, distributing tens of thousands of face masks and other supplies throughout the region. In 2021, Sue created the #PghCatFolx projects to support neighbors working with community cats. Under that heading came the Dr. John P. Ruffing DVM Pet Food Projects, memorializing one of her very best friends who died in 2007. In 2021, Sue worked with community leaders to develop and establish a 501c3 nonprofit organization, Pittsburgh LGBTQ Charities (PLC) where she currently serves as Board President. PLC absorbed the #PghCatFolx projects. Also in 2021, Sue was the first person in history appointed to the City of Pittsburgh LGBTQIA+ Commission and was unanimously elected as one of three inaugural co-chairs. Her blogging has garnered numerous awards Favorite GLBT Media Publication - 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 (Keystone Alliance Gaylife Newsletter Reader’s Poll) Favorite GLBT Social Media - 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 (Keystone Alliance Gaylife Newsletter Reader’s Poll) Best Local Blogger - 2016, 2019 (Pittsburgh City Paper Reader’s Poll) LGBTQIA Pittsburgh’s Best Blogger - 2020 (SisTersPgh, People’s Pride of Pittsburgh) Outstanding Blog - 2019, 2022 (GLAAD Media Awards) Sue has also personally been honored Person of the Year - The Advocate Magazine, 2022 15 Lesbian Icons - LGBTQ Nation, 2023 LGBTQIA Pittsburgh’s Best Lesbian Activist - SisTersPgh, People’s Pride of Pittsburgh 2022 Sue believes in identifying and filling gaps in supports & services rather than recreating the wheel. She uses both her undergraduate and graduate degrees on a regular basis as a blogger and activist and regularly circulates her 1991 internship photo just to shake things up on her social media feeds. Her own experiences with cPTSD, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and other health challenges have fueled her health blogging and activism. She also writes extensively about her family history, drawing on her amateur genealogy hobby. The blog regularly reviews arts and cultural events as well as exploring restaurants, soap opera storylines, and hyper-local news. Sue and her wife Laura have been together since 2003. They were married on a very cold February 2, 2021 in their backyard at a very small ceremony co-officiated by their pagan priestess friend, Anne, and then-Mayor Bill Peduto. They have six niblings, four in Pittsburgh and two in Philadelphia.

Joe Hoeffel in Pittsburgh today to talk about the environment

Joe Hoeffel in Pittsburgh today to talk about the environment

  HOEFFEL TO CHALLENGE CANDIDATES ON NATURAL GAS EXTRACTION: Joe Hoeffel will discuss drilling in Southwestern PA   Who:       Joe Hoeffel, Democratic Candidate for Governor                  Terri Davin, Friends of Dunkard Creek   What:          Joe Hoeffel, Democrat for governor, will discuss the economic development           potential and challenges to environment […]

Gertrude Stein Club Finds New Leadership

Gertrude Stein Club Finds New Leadership

The good word from this week's Pittsburgh City Paper is good for Pittsburgh's Progressive Community … the Gertrude Stein Political Club of Pittsburgh has found new leaders to keep this legendary institution going strong. When the Gertrude Stein Political Club of Greater Pittsburgh made its endorsements for the May 18 primary this year, they came […]

Post-Gazette: Governor's Race Still Four Way Race

Post-Gazette: Governor's Race Still Four Way Race

The Post-Gazette has another look at the Governor's race with an emphasis on economic issues. Here's there take on Hoeffel … While the perception of Mr. Hoeffel as a more liberal candidate often focuses on social issues such as abortion rights and gay marriage, he also stresses the need for an activist approach to economic […]

A Letter About Arizona

A Letter About Arizona

Tobias has given permission for this to be published. Please read this … Friends and colleagues — I have just finished reading through the text of the law that has been enacted in Arizona targeting undocumented immigrants. I have been studying the laws of the United States and working on civil rights issues for fifteen […]

Get Equal Targets Senate Armed Forces Commititee

No one from the Pennsylvania delegation serves on this committee.  Would you participate if they did?  Would you risk arrest and/or being cited?  When I think about this, I have to keep in my mind my career as a social worker.  I have to maintain my criminal history clearances, both in PA and through the […]

Random Stuff … Just Because

Random Stuff … Just Because

What do you think of the new look?  May is Ledcat's birthday and blue is her favorite color.  Don't worry. I have a real gift hidden … well, I can't tell you because she does read this. I think. At least she fakes it well.  Nonetheless, blue. Today seemed to be the day of multiple […]

Update: Protestors stage sit-in at Senator John McCain's office over DADT

Attached is the letter to Senator John McCain from First Class Petty Officer Lonnie Allen. Update 4:45 PM The protestors are not from Get Equal or Equality Across America.  They belong to an Arizona organization called HERO (Human and Equal Rights Organizers) based on Phoenix. The protestors are reported to have been arrested, cited and […]

What makes us gay? Dispute in Babette Joseph's House of Representative's race

What makes us gay? Dispute in Babette Joseph's House of Representative's race

I saw this a few days ago on Facebook, but lost track of time posting.  It was picked up by the Post-Gazette. We are all confused, meanwhile, about a state legislative race in Philadelphia, where one candidate has “outed” the other as straight. The incumbent, Rep. Babette Josephs, says her challenger in the Democratic primary, […]

Federal Marshalls Call Transgender Veteran "Shim"

Federal Marshalls Call Transgender Veteran "Shim"

Quick notes this morning.  Read this account from blogger and transgender activist Autumn Sandeen at Pam's House Blend.  It describes her processing by US Federal Marshalls who treated her with disrespect and in direct violation of their own policies for processing transgender men and women.  Autumn is a decorated military veteran who engaged in civil disobedience […]

Greensburg Catholic Diocese Protects Their Toys From the Gays

Greensburg Catholic Diocese Protects Their Toys From the Gays

From the Post-Gazette … The Catholic Diocese of Greensburg will no longer participate in the U.S. bishops' anti-poverty program, which some conservative activists say has funded abortion-rights and gay-rights supporters. Bishop Lawrence Brandt said he intends to create a Diocesan Poverty Relief Fund to receive the money that formerly went to the Catholic Campaign for […]