Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) remembers those who have been murdered in hate crimes at somber community-based events. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the event, originally created to record otherwise forgotten trans community history.
At the time, the Pickett murder and subsequent murder trial of her alleged killer, William Palmer, had received a lot of media attention for its time and was written about extensively in trans circles, but no one in the chat room was familiar with the case.web project in order to track these instances of violence against the trans community. The following year, trans people in San Francisco and Boston held the first Trans Day of Remembrance, using Smith’s web project as source material.
Well, shortly after Remembering Our Dead really started to take off and started becoming visible, here in San Francisco Bay Area, about six or seven of us had gotten together. We were creating a kind of pseudo [activist group like] Transsexual Menace or otherwise in-your-face activism group that was going by the name TG Rage. It really didn't go very far—it actually ended up morphing into other things later on..
“There are times that I feel like, What did I unleash? Did I do the right thing? Was this the event that our community should have?” I think part of that is almost built into some of the DNA of our community. When I was coming out, trying to find the activists who came before me was difficult; when they were going through the process, they had to fight to find people. There's this seemingly long history of us not having a lot of readily available trans elders to look to. We don't always share.
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