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Ruby Corado, a local transgender activist, speaks at a meeting Monday to discuss recent anti-gay hate crime activity in Washington; Asst. Chief Diane Grooms of D.C. Metro Police at Monday’s meeting; Council members David Catania (leaning forward) and Jack Evans (in striped tie) at Monday’s meeting. Council member Phil Mendelson also attended. (Blade photos by Henry Linser)
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Candlelight Vigil for Tony Randolph Hunter
Sunday at 6 p.m.
Metropolitan Community Church of Washington, 474 Ridge St., N.W.
Participants are requested to wear plain white T-shirts as a sign of unity
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violence can be poor person on poor person, white on black, black on black, Asian on white. I don’t think there is a class link or a racial link.”
Brian Watson, director of programs for Transgender Health Empowerment, says many incidents of verbal harassment against transgender women in the newly gentrified Mt. Vernon Triangle neighborhood came from the residents of the new condo buildings. He cites a Channel 7 news piece where white residents referred to the women as “things” they did not want in their neighborhoods.
“This is what people have the audacity and boldness to say on TV,” Watson says. “You know they are saying much worse as they are stepping over people.”
Mariner says the Center is there to “fill in the holes” of services that aren’t being offered by other local organizations.
The Center is helping GLOV to reestablish itself. A gay/trans self-defense workshop is planned for Nov. 8 from 1 to 4 p.m. though organizers are still working on a location (check future editions of the Blade for more information on that as it becomes available; visit www.thedccenter.org for more information on GLOV).
“It really doesn’t matter to me whether there’s a significant increase in violence or not,” Mariner says. “I feel that any anti-GLBT violence is unacceptable.”
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