Transgender Day of Remembrance 2010

November 20, 2010 7:00pm Admission is free

Ravenna United Methodist Church
5751 33rd Ave. NE Seattle, WA 98105

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 transsexual, crossdresser, or otherwise gender-variant — each was a victim of violence based on bias against transgender people.

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.

We encourage everyone to take a personal moment of silence and remember our Trans Brother’s and Sister’s. We’re all part of the same community and by not recognizing and embracing that we only keep ourselves down.

Hate is all around us; We see and hear stories all the time, different names and places but the same hate. If we stick together and grow stronger as a community the harder it is to hurt us.

Quoted text via: transgenderdor.org