20 November is the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Every year for nine years so far, the transgender community and their allies gather together in order to remember all those who have been killed due to transphobic violence over the year. The list at Gender.org has grown to 280 individuals.
The Transgender Day of Remembrance began in 1999 as a vigil organized by author and activist Gwendolyn Ann Smith to remember and raise awareness of the murder of Rita Hester. Hester, a transgender activist, was murdered a year before. She was stabbed twenty times in her home in Boston and died due to cardiac arrest soon after. Full story...
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The Family Research Council has launched a website aimed at removing Kevin Jennings from his appointment as head of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools at the Department of Education.
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A world survey of laws prohibiting same sex activity between consenting adults
Homophobia is the fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals.
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