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Title: International Transgender Day Of Remembrance
Post by: Butterfly on November 21, 2009, 12:56:51 AM
International Transgender Day Of Remembrance
Pam's House Blend
By Autumn Sandeen
20 November 2009


http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/14173/international-transgender-day-of-remembrance (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/14173/international-transgender-day-of-remembrance)


The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the "Remembering Our Dead" web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester's murder - like most anti-transgender murder cases - has yet to be solved.