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For the present, the Transgender Calendar page will have to be restricted to notices for Transgender Remembrance Day.  I apologize that an illness and a huge backlog of work prevented me from listing the Montclair walk until today, but no one indicated any interest in participating in this event at the last meeting.  I am listing the notices promulgated by GRAANJ and by the William Way Center below.

Jennifer Mae Barnes

November 19, 2006

 

 

Hi all.
 
Please join us as we remember all those who have died  because of transphobic violence. We have two important events that everyone is strongly encourged to attend.The more the public is aware of such lethal bigotrty the safer the world is for all trans and gender non conforming people.
 
13 people have been were murdered world wide due to trans related violence and hatred since last year's Transgender Day Of Rememberance ( Nov. 20, 2005) ( source: www.rememberingourdead.org). Since the year 2000 over two people per month have been reported murdered as a direct result of transphobic bigotry, hatred and violence. There are doubtless many more unreported murders or murders that go unclassified as being trans related. 
Eight people have been murdered right here in New Jersey over the years as a direct result of such heinous transphobic violence. We have lost no one in New jersey this year thank goodness.
Most of our lost sisters and brothers have been poor, vulnerable,  marginalized, and disproportionally people of color. Many have been brutally murdered. Many are people that society had already decided to forget.
 
 We in the transgender community , however, shall remember them, and love them, every single year!
 
The Walk for Transgender Remembrance and Equality in Montclair on Thursday, Nov.16 at 7 PM will be an actual walk through Montclair starting at the United Church of Christ and stopping at Bnai Keshet Synagogue the Unitarian Fellowship. We will be highlighting the  critical issue of transphobic murders as well as the dire need for trans equality legislation in NJ. We expect widespread media coverage of our activities in Montclair.
 
The Princeton University Transgender Day of Remembrance observance on Monday, Nov. 20 at 7:30 PM will be a most spiritual and uplifting experience. The Princeton University Chapel is a wonderful setting for our yearly observance and we are so grateful for the opportunity to hold our DOR observance there every year.  
 
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                Everyone is welcome!                                 Help us stop the violence!!
 
                        Help us remember those who society would rather forget!
 
 
 
Thursday Nov. 16 , 2006    United Church of Christ, 40 South Fullerton St., Montclair, NJ ,   7 PM
 
Walk for Transgender Remembrance and Equality
 
Co sponsored by GRAANJ and Garden State Equality. Also participating are Bnai Keshet Reconstructionist Synagogue and the Unitarian Fellowship of Montclair
 
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Monday, November 20, 2006  7:30 PM   Princeton, NJ
 
  Transgender Day of Remembrance Observance
 
Princeton University Chapel, Princeton, NJ   7:30 PM
 
Co-sponsored by GRAANJ and the Princeton University LGBTI Student Services Center, Princeton Office of Religious Life, Firehazards, Women's Center, Garden State Equality

Terry McCorkell
 
GRAANJ


8th Annual Transgender Remembrance Day

The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice.

 

 We live in times more sensitive than ever to hatred based violence, especially since the events of September 11th. Yet even now, the deaths of those based on anti-transgender bias, hatred or prejudice are largely ignored. Over the last decade, almost two people every month have died because of trans-gender based hate prejudice or bias. This trend shows no sign of abating but, only growing worse because of fear and ignorance . . .

 

 TheTransgender Day of Remembrance serves several purposes.:

 

 Through the vigil, we express love and respect for our people in the face of national indifference and hatred.

 

 It publicly mourns and honors the lives of our brothers and sisters who might other wise be forgotten.

 

 It raises public awareness of hate crimes against transgendered people  - 

something our current media doesn’t perform.

 

 It reminds non-transgendered people that we are their sons, daughters, parents, family, friends and lovers.

 

 It gives our allies a chance to step forward with us and stand in vigil with us,  memorializing

those of us who have died because of  anti-transgender violence.

 

Although not every person represented during the Day of Remembrance self-identified as transgendered

That is, a transsexual, crossdresser, or otherwise gender-variant individual

Each was  a victim of violence based on bias, hatred, and prejudice of, and against, a transgendered person.

 

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Please join us at 7:30 pm on Monday, November 20, 2006,  at the William Way LGBT Community Center for a reading of the names and the cause of death of the transgender people who lost their lives to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice since the last Transgender Day of Remembrance, November 20, 2005,

 

AND IN REMEMBERING

the 10  transgender people  M U R D E R E D  in Philadelphia  since 1984,

 

Followed by  a tribute performance  by Lady Finesse aka "MISS ROSS"

the reigning MISS PA. INTERNATIONAL NORTH  AMERICA  SUPREME ,

in honor of the late Nizah Roberta Morris.

 

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TheTransgender Day of Remembrance is a world-wide memorial to emphasize the unacceptable number of annual deaths and violence shown towards transgender people, To promote greater understanding and change the societal morass transpeople face, And to cause acceptance of all individuals, whether transgender or not.

 



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