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Transgender Day of Remembrance Interfaith Service
November 20 @ 7:00 pm
Free
All are welcome to join in this observance of remembrance, mourning, and affirmation. Sponsored by the Montclair Interfaith Clergy Association, this service will be held at Montclair Friends Meeting, 289 Park Street, Montclair, NJ on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 7:00 PM.
The Transgender Day of Remembrance is set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. With this service we raise public awareness, mourn and honor the lives of our transgender and gender non-conforming kin and we express love and respect in the face of national indifference and hatred.
The 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 transgenderwoman 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.
Questions can be directed to Rev. Anya Sammler-Michael at revanya@uumontclair.org.