Reading Pride Celebration to host virtual Transgender Day of Remembrance

READING, P.a., November 16, 2020 — Reading Pride Celebration will host a virtual Transgender Day of Remembrance Ceremony this Friday, November 20, 2020, to honor the memory of 36 transgender people killed in the United States this year.

The event, that will be streamed at 7:00 PM through RPC’s Facebook and Youtube channel will also mention the more than a hundred killed worldwide since last year’s event.

“2020 has been a hard year for all of us, but it has been an especially deadly year for the trans community”, said RPC’s President, Enrique Castro. Our trans siblings need not only to have equal rights and protections under the law, but they also need to not be made to fear who they are. We need to stand with them as a community”, said Castro.

For more information about the event, please visit www.readingpridecelebration.org.

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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.

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.

Reading Pride Celebration has adopted the ceremony since 2010.