Revisit the top 10 stories you read online in 2024
Each year, we check the online traffic reports to see which stories were most popular. Here are the top 10 Washington Blade stories by web traffic for 2024. #10: Professor at Baptist University in Virginia found dead in Florida gay sauna. #9: Virginia Gov.
Glenn Youngkin signs bill that codifies marriage equality into law. #8: Accidental overdose deaths of two beloved D.C.
gay men elicits powerful response from local LGBTQ community. #7: Trump nominates Scott Bessent, a gay man, to become Secretary of the Treasury in new administration.
If confirmed, Bessent would become the highest-ranking out government official since Treasury is fifth in the line of presidential succession. #6: An opinion piece titled, “Elon Musk is a danger to society,” by Blade columnist Isaac Amend noted that the X owner has begun banning accounts that use the word “cisgender” and denounced the mogul as a notorious transphobe. #5: Nonbinary Oklahoma high school student dies after fight. Nex Benedict, 16, died from injuries suffered in a February 2024 attack at Owasso High School in Oklahoma. #4: After 55 years, the Washington Blade finally scored an interview with a sitting president when our White House reporter Chris Kane sat down with President Biden in the Oval Office in September.
