An Insensitive Tribeca Film Festival Pick: Ticked-Off ->-bleeped-<-s With Knives
by: Autumn Sandeen
Thu Mar 25, 2010 at 15:30:00 PM EDT

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/15666/an-insensitive-tribeca-film-festival-pick-tickedoff-->-bleeped-<-s-with-knives

Update: Commentary from the Instant Tea blog of The Dallas Voice added to the end of this post.

As most of y'all know, last April (April 2009) I covered the Angie Zapata Hate Crime Trial from the courtroom. Angie Zapata GravesiteBurned into my mind are the images of Angie lying dead in her apartment -- lying on her living room floor looking as if she were just asleep -- but with a pool of blood around her head. She was bludgeoned to death in a bias motivated crime; she died as the result of an antigay, antitransgender hate crime. The trial, and the conviction of Allen Ray Andrade of first degree murder and a bias motivated crime (a hate crime), has, as one might expect, effected my point of view on antigay and antitransgender hate violence.

And too, I'm so aware of why the trans community marks the Transgender Day Of Remembrance (TDOR). Each year since November of 2003, I've been involved with my city's TDOR memoriam at the San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center. We lose far too many trans people -- nationally and internationally -- each year due to antitransgender hatred or prejudice.