Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents

02/14/2025

Tahiry Broom, a 29-year-old Black transgender woman, was shot and killed on Sunday morning, February 9, in Southfield, Michigan. She was visiting Detroit from Cleveland. Tahiry’s nickname was Tokyo.

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02/14/2025

Photo via Rochester LGBTQ+ Together

CN: torture, murder, transgender identity

This will be an ongoing investigation. But what we know now is:

Sam Nordquist was born in Red Wing, Minnesota and lived most recently in St. Paul, Minnesota. He identified as biracial. In the missing person’s postings, Sam’s family said he had about 22 tattoos, including an owl tattoo on throat, dolphin, grandma & grandpa, and praying hands. Sam was 24 years old.

Sam traveled to New York in September 2024 and was last seen near Patty’s Lodge in Canandaigua. By the end of January, Sam was no longer in touch with his family. On February 9, his mother and sister filed a police report. On Valentine’s Day, police announced they had found his body.

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Biracial Trans Man, Sam Nordquist, 24, Missing from Minnesota, Tortured and Killed in Canandaigua, New York - Pittsburgh Le***an Correspondents https://bit.ly/410SObj

02/14/2025

So today I walked to my cat colony, just enjoying the sun. Everytthingn was normal untiil I returnned to my yard. I noticed a white pickup truck idling sort of nearby in a spot not typical for idling.

I got very anxious and stood still, pretending to look at my phone.What was the right thingn to do? Proceed as usual? Try to glimpse the license plate? Approach the car? Go into my yard?

I opted to go into my yard and the truck rolled slowly past as I started kicking myself for being so obvious that this was my yard. I opened the gate and slid in, quickly securing nthe lock. Annd then kicked myselffor not watching for the license plate or taking a photo.

So I'm a little scared, beating myself up for my choices, and all the while realizing it was probably just a contractor. Then beating myself up ffor overreacting.

Man Threatens to ‘Track Me Down’ for a ‘Physical Discussion’ in Response to My Trans Affirming Content - Pittsburgh Le***an Correspondents

"I'm on my way out anyway. I will find people affiliate with you. I do not stop for protesters. I will run through you" Content Note: threats of violence, transgender content, police Over 20 years of blogging and activism, I have been thrashed and trashed from many corners. I've had mean, vicious co...

02/14/2025

I’m here trying to survive. I want to help my community, but that does not mean you get to shift your accountability for Trump 2.0 to me. It doesn’t mean I have some special skills to wade through the information and build you a plan. It doesn’t mean you get to ask me to dive into my trauma to help you figure it out.

You can try to escape it, but the truth is that you have to do the work to resist fascism. There’s no shortcut.

Stop holding out for a hero. Do the simple, but hard work. - Pittsburgh Le***an Correspondents https://bit.ly/3EEAZYb

02/14/2025

Man Threatens to ‘Track Me Down’ for a ‘Physical Discussion’ in Response to My Trans Affirming Content - Pittsburgh Le***an Correspondents https://bit.ly/40YQnpN

02/14/2025

The last time I heard from her was 2018.

I was sitting looking at my tiger’s eye rock that I bought at a flea market in Pittsburgh and it made me think of you. I have no doubt you’re still busy fixing this broken world.

That’s what she said to me. I didn’t know what to say to her about her detransition the following year. I was so afraid of saying the wrong thing, of saying what *I* thought that I just said nothing. My heart broke watching her be exploited, remembering the bright determined spirit I had known. Elisa eventually revealed she had continued her medical transition, renounced the exploitative comments, and emerged as Elisa.

I am aware that Elisa did a lot of harm during these years. She was making amends. Was it enough? How can I say? https://bit.ly/3X0FqTF

02/14/2025

Tahiry was born on March 1, 1995 in Cleveland, Ohio. According to her social media, she enjoyed pretty things, was a self-described shopaholic and unabashedly earning money to buy things. She was a fan of Nicki Minaj and Rihanna. She liked Forever 21 and Hot Topic. She was a vibrant young woman who enjoyed life. Tahiry was also known as Tokyo.

Tahiry’s family loved her. They loved her so much you can feel their heartache in their words.

Tahiry Broom, a 29-year-old Black transgender woman, was shot and killed on Sunday morning, February 9, in Southfield, Michigan. She was visiting Detroit from Cleveland. Tahiry's nickname was Tokyo. According to WXYZ, Robert Ridges III, 28, met her through a commercial s*x advertisement and met up o...

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It says that Casby witnessed “the lies of Reconstruction, the injustices of the Jim Crow era and the infinite shortcomings of this blatantly racist country.”

“This history is not distant,” it says.

William Casby, who had been enslaved, was 106 when a famous photographer asked him to sit for a photo.

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Posted • A major legal victory for transgender students in New Jersey: The state’s Superior Court struck down school policies requiring staff to disclose a student’s transgender status without consent, affirming that forced disclosure violates privacy rights and puts students at risk.

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