Transgender Day of Remembrance

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Photographs by: Ward Morrison
Published edition date: 12/08/2012
Event date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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LGBT-Rights Leaders Mark Transgender Day of Remembrance

Activists and LGBT leaders across the globe are marking the 14th annual�Transgender Day of Remembrance�today as a means to raise awareness of the violent hate crimes perpetrated against transgender people and to remember those lost over the past year.

Held every year on Nov. 20, the vigil was founded by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith to honor Rita Hester after her murder in Massachusetts on Nov. 28, 1998. Hester's case, like many other incidents of violence against transgender people, remains unsolved. Studies consistently show violence against transgender people remains at staggeringly high levels. According to a 2011 report by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Program, 40 percent of murders against members of the LGBT community were against transgender women, particularly women of color.

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