Our community’s observance of the 17th International Transgender Day of Remembrance will be held in downtown Asheville, at Pritchard Park at 7:00 pm on Saturday, November 21, 2015.
Organized by Tranzmission with support from The Campaign for Southern Equality, LGBTJew, and Umbrella Tree Records, this local event will be among of many observances around the world.
The 17th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance will honor and memorialize transgender and gender variant victims of transphobic violence in the previous 12 months. The event was first held in 1999 to memorialize the death of Massachusetts trans woman Rita Hester, whose murder remains unsolved. It has since grown into an international event to draw attention to the issue of anti-transgender violence.
The Facebook event page is at https://www.facebook.com/events/519298638239719/
For more information about The Transgender Day of Remembrance and Tranzmission, please contact Brynn Estelle by email at brynn@tranzmission.org.
