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Shana A

November 18, 2009, 08:23:35 AM

Activists to hold Transgender Day of Remembrance vigils, marches around the country
by Renee Baker
EDGE Contributor

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=99136

Ethan St. Pierre misses his aunt Deborah Forte everyday, but the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance remains a stark reminder of how Forte was brutally murdered in 1995 because of her gender identity and expression.

"I was called in to identify the body," St. Pierre recalled to EDGE. "She was unrecognizable."

November 20 marks the TDOR's 11th anniversary. And St. Pierre remains passionate about honoring those murdered individuals who identified as transgender.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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