BALTIMORE TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
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We are currently working on our program for this year. Please check back soon for updates.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance is made possible through a collaboration of First Unitarian Church of Baltimore, Baltimore Transgender Alliance, Transgender Response Team, and our many community volunteers and sponsors.
Image credit: Human Rights Campaign, 2015 Transgender Day of Remembrance
Learn more at these links:
International Transgender Day of Remembrance Wikipedia - Transgender Day of Remembrance GLAAD - Transgender Murders 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 |
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For more information, please contact Jean-Michel Brevelle at j_brevelle@yahoo.com or call (443) 876-8139.
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