Celebrating 18 Years of Blogging at Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents

As I have said, on Friday, December 29, we celebrated a huge milestone — 18 years of blogging and the start of our 19th year of blogging.

What does that look like?

6,140 blog posts — I published them, but I didn’t write them all. 330+ posts were created by the #AMPLIFY contributors. That’s 341 posts each year, on average. Almost 1 post per day. Wow. I feel super productive.

In this situation, a fusion of social work with community journalism, PghLesbian has documented nearly two decades of history for the LGBTQ community, Pittsburgh, and the nation.

History of the blog

The average blog lifespan is two years, making Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents’ near two-decade run notable. This anniversary also marks the return of Steel City Snowflakes, a unique fundraising project that Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents created with support of the F. Dok Harris Initiative and Tech4Society.

Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents launched in an era when no openly LGBTQ official held office in Western Pennsylvania or on the Statewide level. The blog has documented the several dozen individuals who have won their office, running as openly LGBTQ individuals.