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Title: 2ND ANNUAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE TO HONOR TRANSGENDER
START DATE: 11/20/2003
START TIME: 7:00 PM
Duration: 3 Hours
Location:
Location Details:
Metropolitan Community Church at 8714 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood
Event Topic: lbgt
Event Type: demonstration
Contact Name: Christine Beatty
Contact Email: cbeatty@glamazon.net
Contact Phone: (818) 761-0084
DESCRIPTION:
LOS ANGELES TO HOLD 2ND ANNUAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE TO HONOR TRANSGENDER VICTIMS OF HATE CRIMES

A coalition of Los Angeles transgender advocacy organizations announced today that it will hold its second annual Transgender Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2003 at the Metropolitan Community Church in West Hollywood. The Transgender Day of Remembrance exists to raise public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people and to provide an opportunity to publicly mourn and remember the victims of anti-transgender hate crimes.

The Los Angeles event begins at 7 P.M. in the MCC sanctuary at 8714 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood. Confirmed speakers include: Rev. Dr. Justin Tanis, author of "Trans-Gendered: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith"; Rabbi Levi Rynakso; and local transgender activists, Alexander Yoo, Shirley Bushnell, and Maria Roman, with other speakers to be announced. The program will also include portions of "A Requiem In Celebration of Gwen Araujo: The Transfigured Body," a multi-media performance piece celebrating the life of Gwen Araujo, the transgender teenager murdered in Newark, Calif., in Oct. 2002.

Following the program at MCC, there will be a candlelight vigil and march up Santa Monica Blvd. to the Matthew Shepard Human Rights Triangle at the corner of Santa Monica Blvd. and Crescent Heights.

According to Gwendolyn Smith, founder of the Day of Remembrance, anti-transgender hate crimes claimed the lives of more than 30 people this year. The most recent deaths in the United States occurred in Washington, D.C. in August of this year. On August 20, the body of 25-year-old Emonie Kiera Spaulding was found partially nude in a field. She had been shot, but also had severe head wounds. In an unrelated incident, a second transgender woman suffered a near-fatal shooting the same evening. Four days earlier, a popular DC transgender entertainer, Bella Evangelista, was killed by multiple gun shots at close range.

The annual Transgender Day of Remembrance event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on Nov. 28, 1998, led to a candlelight vigil in San Francisco and the founding of the Remembering our Dead Project. Rita Hester's murder, like most anti-transgender murder cases, has yet to be solved.

Further information on the Transgender Day of Remembrance and the Remembering Our Dead Project is available at www.rememberingourdead.org/day.

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