Transgenders seek safer lives
SOCIETY: Coffee house challenges others to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31
By KATE DUBINSKI, The London Free Press
Last Updated: March 26, 2010 6:58pm
http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/03/26/13373761.htmlA London cafe has issued a challenge to independent coffee houses all over the continent: make your shops safe for transgendered people on March 31. "Even during the heyday of the gay and lesbian movement in the 1960s, transgendered people were kicked out of the movement," said Linda Wayne, owner of the East Village Coffee House, on Dundas St. beside the Aeolian Hall.
March 31 was declared International Transgender Day of Visibility in 2009.
"If we can stick a rainbow flag on our windows or cars to claim public space for gay and lesbian people, we can come out publicly in support of our neighbours, family, friends and co-workers who fall under the transgender umbrella," Wayne said.
