8th Annual Transgender Day of Rememberance

The 8th Annual Transgender Day of Rememberance is being observed in the Boston area on Sunday and Monday this year. On Sunday the 19th, there will be a Transgender Day of Remembrance ceremony from 7-9 PM at the Arlington Street Church in Boston, MA. Monday the 20th in the City of Worcester, 7:30 p.m there will be an observance at All Saints Church, an Episcopal church at the corner of Pleasant and Irving streets in Worcester MA.

If you don’t know about this day, I think the words from the main web site tell it best:

The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester’s murder — like most anti-transgender murder cases — has yet to be solved.

Although not every person represented during the Day of Remembrance self-identified as transgendered — that is, as a transsexual, crossdresser, or otherwise gender-variant — each was a victim of violence based on bias against transgendered people.