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Interfaith Community Gathers to Observe Transgender Day of Remembrance

12/15/2022 02:03:12 PM

Dec15

On November 20, members of local organizations and faith communities joined TBE members to mark the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, honoring those who lost their lives to anti-LGBTQ violence. The mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, a welcoming space for the LGBTQ community in Colorado, added sadness and urgency to the solemn service.

The Transgender Day of Remembrance was started by advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith in 1999 in memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who had been killed the previous year. It became an annual tradition to honor all transgender people who lost their lives to violence because of who they were. 

“We pray for the strength to carry on their legacy of vision, bravery, and love,” said Cantor Jacob Niemi.

TBE hosted the service this year and was joined by these interfaith partners:

 
Beth Israel Center
Bethany United Methodist Church
Briarpatch Youth Services (Teens Like Us Program)
Circle Sanctuary
City of Madison Office of the Mayor
Congregation Shaarei Shamayim
Covenant Presbyterian Church
El Tawhid Juma Circle-Madison
First Baptist Church of Madison
First Unitarian Society of Madison
First United Methodist Church
Gender and Sexuality Campus Center
Holy Wisdom Monastery
Jewish Federation of Madison
Jewish Social Services of Madison
Just Dane
Lake Edge UCC
League of Women Voters of Dane County
Madison Christian Community - Advent Lutheran Church and Community of Hope UCC
Madison Insight Meditation Group
Memorial United Church of Christ
Middleton Community Church UCC
Orchard Ridge United Church of Christ
OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center
PFLAG-Madison
Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society
Pres House
Pres House Apartments
St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church
St. John's Lutheran Church
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
The Crossing Campus Ministry
Trinity United Methodist Church
Vivent Health
Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice

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