Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.
Join the Lambda Alliance for a gathering in honor of the day:
Date: Friday, November 20, 2020
Time: 12 noon – 1 pm
Zoom: https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/97545161636
Transgender Day of Remembrance 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.
- How to observe TDOR from GLAAD
- Virtual memorial honoring those lost to anti-transgender violence in 2019
- Unerased: Counting Transgender Lives
GLAAD: Organizations and resources:
- Anti-Violence Project
- International Transgender Day of Remembrance
- National Center for Transgender Equality
- Sylvia Rivera Law Project
- Trans Women of Color Collective
- Transgender Europe’s Trans Murder Monitoring Project
- Transgender Law Center
- TransJustice at the Audre Lorde Project
GLAAD: Reports on violence and discrimination:
- Human Rights Campaign’s Violence Against the Transgender Community
- National Center for Transgender Equality’s Discrimination Survey
GLAAD: More information:
- Learn more about transgender people on GLAAD’s resource page
- Learn about Transgender Awareness Week
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