Johnathan Forani, The Toronto Star
August 11, 2014
Before the ribbon was even cut, the newly renamed Barbara Hall Park near Church and Wellesley was the centre of controversy last month when city staff washed away a chalk memorial to fallen members of the trans community.
"I was furious," says 30-year-old Toronto trans activist Christin Milloy. "The city came along and literally erased the deaths of trans people."
But hours later, chalk in hand, the community flooded back to the empty brick wall, then just a faint outline of the original memorial, and recreated the colourful mural. Lit from above by rainbow lights, the memorial — still going strong more than three weeks later — features a large white transgender symbol surrounded by the names of friends murdered or lost to suicide.
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