Remembering trans heroine Rita Hester

[Shana A]

Remembering trans heroine Rita Hester
by Rev. Irene Monroe
Bay Windows Contributor
Wednesday Nov 17, 2010

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This weekend is the 12th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) and many of us across the nation will be memorializing transgender Americans murdered because of their gender identities or gender expressions.

The purpose of TDOR is to raise public awareness of hate crimes against transgendered people and to honor their lives that might otherwise be forgotten.

This event is held every November honoring Rita Hester, a 34-year-old African American transsexual, who was mysteriously found murdered inside her first floor apartment outside of Boston on Nov. 28, 1998.