Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Transgender Day of Remembrance

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Transgender Day of Remembrance

9th Annual
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Gather in honor and remembrance. Unite in strength and hope.
Saturday 20 November 2010

CT TransAdvocacy, ctEQUALITY and MCC of Hartford, announces that in addition to our speakers lined up for this event, we will welcome State Representative Michael Lawlor to talk at the rally! Representative Lawlor has been a champion for this issue and our equality work in years past and we look forward to welcoming him on this important day!

- 5:15 pm: Gather at First Presbyterian Church, 136 Capitol Avenue and walk to State Capitol

- 5:30 pm: Rally and name-reading at the State Capitol (North steps)

- 7 pm: Program of Remembrance at Hartford Metropolitan Community Church, 155 Wyllys Street

Transgender Day of Remembrance is an international day we set aside to remember the transgender people we have lost to violence and anti-trans bias. Please join us.

This year we will gather as a community of transgender people and allies to remember those we have lost. We will have a vigil, reading of the names, and inspiring words from members of CT's transgender communities, all followed by a program of remembrance at Hartford MCC.

Please join us in making this a unifying, empowering event!

~Co-sponsors~

CT Outreach Society, Twenty Club, CT AIDS Resource Coalition, Transitioning and Loving Life, National Association of Social Workers CT, CT Anti-Defamation League, American Civil Liberties Union CT, Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services, True Colors, Women & Gender Resource Center, LGBT Center at CCSU, PFLAG of Hartford, Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, CT Alliance for Business Opportunities, Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Transgender Day of Remembrance

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