BALTIMORE TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Vigil
Nov. 20, 2022
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Sunday, Nov. 20th @ 2PM
Assemble at the YNOT Lot Join Baltimore Safe Haven as we come together to honor the lives of all our fallen siblings. WE SPEAK THEIR NAMES! Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence. With so many seeking to erase transgender people -- sometimes in the most brutal ways possible -- it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice. YNOT Lot - 4 W. North Avenue (Corner of North and Charles) Download a simplified list of the names at the link below.
Download a flier with info on all three events below.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance Memorial Ceremony
Nov. 20, 2022
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Sunday, Nov. 20th @ 5PM
Downtown Cultural Arts Center 401 N. Howard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 Join us as we hold space and honor our siblings lost to anti-trans violence. |
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Trans Remembrance Ball
Nov. 20, 2022
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Baltimore Safe Haven presents:
Trans Remembrance Ball Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022 @ 7 PM Downtown Cultural Arts Center 401 N. Howard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 Celebrating and Uplifting Trans Lives CASH PRIZES! Doors Open at 6pm Ball & Awards 7pm - 11pm |
Other Important Events
Town Hall Meeting
Trans & Non-Binary Networking and the Workplace
Download the meeting flier from the link below.
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Wednesday, Nov. 30th @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
First & Franklin Presbyterian Church 210 W. Madison Street Baltimore, MD 21201 (Enter on Park Avenue) Presented by AIDS Action Baltimore in collaboration with Pride Center of Maryland Hosted by Falina L Outreach Coordinator & Peer Navigator Please join AIDS Action Baltimore and Pride Center of Maryland for a discussion on workplace disparities, highlighting workplace triumphs, and sex work as work. Dinner and refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to baltoaids@aol.com. For more information, call (410) 837-2437. | ||
Image credit: Human Rights Campaign, 2015 Transgender Day of Remembrance
Learn more at these links:
Remembering Our Dead Wikipedia - Transgender Day of Remembrance Trans Murder Monitoring Project 
Baltimore Transgender Day of Remembrance service, 2015.
Image credit: Baltimore Sun.
Baltimore Transgender Day of Remembrance, 2010. A tree is planted in memory of those lost to transhate. Image credit: Steve Charing.
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What is Transgender Day of Remembrance?
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 transgender — that is, as a transexual, crossdresser, or otherwise gender-variant — each was a victim of violence based on bias against transgender people. We live in times more sensitive than ever to hatred based violence, especially since the events of September 11th. Yet even now, the deaths of those based on anti-transgender hatred or prejudice are largely ignored. Over the last decade, more than one person per month has died due to transgender-based hate or prejudice, regardless of any other factors in their lives. This trend shows no sign of abating. The Transgender Day of Remembrance serves several purposes. It raises public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people, an action that current media doesn’t perform. Day of Remembrance publicly mourns and honors the lives of our brothers and sisters who might otherwise be forgotten. Through the vigil, we express love and respect for our people in the face of national indifference and hatred. Day of Remembrance reminds non-transgender people that we are their sons, daughters, parents, friends and lovers. Day of Remembrance gives our allies a chance to step forward with us and stand in vigil, memorializing those of us who’ve died by anti-transgender violence. Excerpted from http://www.rememberingourdead.org/day/what.html The Remembering our Dead Web Project and The Transgender Day of Remembrance are owned by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, All Rights Reserved (c) 2007 |
Contact Us |
For more information, please contact Jean-Michel Brevelle at j_brevelle@yahoo.com or call (443) 876-8139.
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