Transgender Day of Remembrance of Santa Cruz County
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www.gender.org/remember/day/
Transgender Day of Remembrance of Santa Cruz County
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
5:30 – 7:30 PM: Downtown Santa Cruz, Compass Rose Plaza (in front of main US Post Office and across from Clock Tower)
maps/directions address: 1550 pacific Ave, 95060
Transgender Awareness, Celebration, & Remembrance
5:30 – 6:00 pm: Music & Social
6:00 – 6:30 pm: Program, Guest Speakers
6:30 – 6:45 pm: Candle Lighting, Remembrance, Moment of Silence
6:45 – 7:15 pm: Open Mic
7:15 – 7:30 pm: Closing performance
Guest Speakers include: John Laird, State Assemblyman; Third District Supervisor of Santa Cruz County Neal Coonerty, who as Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz in the early 1990s co-authored the first GLBT non-discrimination ordinance for housing and employment, which was inclusive of Transgender persons; Terri Gilbert, who founded the first Transgender organization in Santa Cruz County; Watsonville City Councilperson and former Mayor Antonio Rivas; Temple Beth El Rabbi Paula Marcus; and more.
8:30 pm: UCSC Cantú Queer Center hosts QMovies featuring a Trans themed film. Snacks provided. All welcome! Info:
queer@ucsc.edu
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. Day of Remembrance gives transgender people and their allies a chance to step forward and stand in vigil, memorializing those who've died by anti-transgender violence.
Co-sponsors of Transgender Day of Remembrance of Santa Cruz County:
Queer Youth Task Force;
Santa Cruz Trans;
FTM (female-to-male) Discussion and Support Group;
Tobacco Free, LGBT, Santa Cruz County;
Diversity Center;
Temple Beth El;
Out In Our Faith;
Westside Planned Parenthood;
Latinas Lesbianas y Aliadas (LyLyA);
Transgender Teen Project;
STRANGE, a program of Youth Services, Santa Cruz Community Counseling Centers, Inc.;
UCSC Lionel Cantú GLBTI Resource Center;
Sex Workers Outreach Project; and
Tribe, a program of Santa Cruz AIDS Project.
siehe auch:
Gedenktag gegen Gewalt an Sexarbeitern
http://sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=803
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