DailyPress.com – By David Nicholson
Norfolk – The 2007 Transgender Day of Remembrance will take place at 7 p.m. Nov. 20 at Church of the Ascension Episcopal, 405 Talbot Hall Road, Norfolk.
This year’s guest speaker will be the Rev. Reg Richburg, the newly named pastor of New Life MCC of Hampton Roads. Tona Brown and Chris Byers will provide musical entertainment.
Sponsored by the New Life MCC Transgender Outreach, the annual event recognizes those murdered due to anti-transgender violence. The Day of Remembrance began in 1999 as a way to draw attention to the issue of anti-transgender violence. The event was created to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of a Massachusetts transgender woman, Rita Hester. Her death remains unsolved.