Sussex Pride will hold a vigil to honor the Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20th. The event takes place at 6:30PM at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Southern Delaware. This year’s event is co-chaired by Randi Johnson and Vienna Cavazos.
The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence since Rita Hester’s death, and began an important tradition that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.
The Emcee for the evening will be Atlas McGinnis and will include remarks by veteran SrA Alexander Greyson. This event is free and open to everyone. However, if you would like to make a donation to support this event, options are included below.
The event will will end with a reading of the names of transgender and nonbinary community members brutally murdered in the last year. The Human Rights Campaign has documented 32 such deaths thus far this year. Once again this year Salisbury PFLAG will be providing hand painted ornaments with the names of the deceased.
Sussex Pride works to celebrate, strengthen, and support the LGBTQ+ community in Sussex County and the state of Delaware, working through a social justice lens. We focus on arts & culture, health & wellness, social and support groups, and advocacy for our community.
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