For each the last few years the trans community has been celebrating its way through the hatred and sadness and doing so together in late November. Just as a reminder, tomorrow is Orlando’s Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) and, given the murders of trans folk this year – and the current climate of hatred – we thought you’d might like to join your brothers and sisters in seeing how far they have come. Here’s the info. Hope you can make it. This one is going to be huge.
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), which occurs annually on November 20, is a day to memorialize those who have been killed as a result of transphobia and to bring attention to the continued violence endured by the transgender community.
This year Valencia’s Gay/Straight Alliance will be holding a TDoR event Thursday, Nov. 17 at Valencia College’s East Campus. The event begins at 2:00 pm with the following organizations participating in an information fair:
Valencia College East GSA
G.I.F.T.
Chase Therapies
Equality Florida
HUE: Helping You Evolve
Human Rights Campaign
Lockheed Martin
Out & Equal
Orlando Youth Alliance
PFFLAG
Planned Parenthood
Valencia Gay Straight Alliance
Watermark
Zebra Coalition
Two Spirit Healthcare
Equality Florida
Zebra House
Family Equality Council
Orlando Gay Chorus
Brevard T-Network
Metropolitan Business Association
Kim Murphy
D.I.R. (Diamonds In The Rough)
Orlando V.A.
Entertainment will start at 4:30 pm and will include the Orlando Gay Chorus, Brandon Mead, Mx Glam, Denise Thompson, Santino Satine aka Cameron Parker, Kameron Vanderbelt, Essence T Van Cartier and Ja’laia Rivera.
Speakers will also be in attendance and will include Dr. David Baker-Hargrove, Kellie Alina, Jennifer Kurzawa, Jean David Parlier, Pat Padilla, Sarah Marie Schmidt and Sebastian Carreira. The speakers will begin at 6:30 pm and will be followed by the candlelight vigil and reading of the names at 9:15 pm.
