Category: Events

June 1, 2009
Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride Month, we commemorate the events of June 1969 and commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans.

The Colorado Gold Rush Celebrates its 10th Annual Transgender Conference at the Adams Mark Hotel downtown Denver February 21st thru February 24th. Over 40 workshops of information for all. Keynote Speakers are: Kelley Winters, Ryan Sallans, Jennifer Boylan and Margaret Stumpp.


www.gicofcolo.org

Local Transgender People and Allies Host Program
(Washington, DC) Ten transgender and allied organizations will hold a 9th annual Day of Remembrance candle light observance on November 20 to remember the victims of hate violence lost locally and around the country.

WHO: Observance is sponsored by DC Trans Coalition, DCATS, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Latin@s en Accion, MAGIC, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), Transgender Education Association (TGEA), Transgender Health Empowerment, DC Black Pride, DC Coalition of Black GLBT Men and Women,
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Whitman Walker Clinic

WHAT: 9th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance to commemorate transgender people and loved ones who have died due to hate violence.

WHERE: Whitman Walker Clinic,
1407 S Street, N.W
Washington, DC

WHEN: 6-8 PM, Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Note: Candle light observance will start promptly at 6PM.

WHY: The Transgender Day of Remembrance memorializes those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the "Remembering Our Dead" web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester's murder ? like most anti-transgender murder cases ? has yet to be solved.

For more information about Day of Remembrance, go to http://www.rememberingourdead.org/day/

Vigil and Speak-Out, preceded by Town Hall Meeting, on Sunday, Nov 18

On Sunday November 18, Boston's transgender community, with
family, friends and allies, will gather at the Arlington Street Church to remember and honor transgender victims of violence. The Remembrance observance will be preceded by an afternoon Town Hall Meeting conducted by the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC).

Activists from all across the US descended on the HRC fundraising dinner in Washington DC on Saturday, October 6 2007. They were protesting the HRC decision NOT to oppose a newly introduced version of the "Employment Non-Discrimination Act" (ENDA) that was stripped of the language which would have protected transgender people.

"We are very disappointed and angry that any civil rights organization claiming to advocate for our rights can turn their backs on us when the going gets tough," said Ethan St.Pierre, board chair of NTAC. "It amounts to a betrayal, since HRC earlier promised to support only an inclusive ENDA."