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Transgender Day of Remembrance Service & Reception
presented with AIDS Project Worcester

Friday, November 20th is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, memorializing all those who have been killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. AIDS Project Worcester will host a service at 7 pm at the All Saints Church, Irving Street, Worcester, MA. Transcending Boundaries and AIDS Project Worcester will also host a Day of Remembrance reception at the Hilton Garden Inn, with refreshments, from 7 - 11 pm, along with an Open Mic from 9 - 11 pm.

Pioneering Voices - Portraits of Transgender People
presented by Family Diversity Projects

Pioneering Voices is a museum-quality traveling exhibit including photographs and interviews with people of all ages who are transgender and some of their partners and children. Through first-person accounts and positive images, this exhibit seeks to challenge damaging myths and stereotypes about transgender people and to educate people about this marginalized, and often invisible group of people. This exhibit explores the many aspects of gender identity and variance by sharing these important, ground-breaking stories with the general public, who might not be knowledgeable about people who are transgender. At the same time, this exhibit celebrates a range of views, opinions, and experiences that are unique and empowering to transgender people everywhere. At the most basic level, Pioneering Voices combats transphobia by breaking silence and making the invisible visible. By encouraging people of all ages to affirm and appreciate diversity, this traveling rental exhibit contributes to the process of dismantling the destructive power of prejudice and intolerance, thereby making the world a safer place for all individuals.

The photo-text rental exhibit consists of 15 ready-to-hang framed photographs and accompanying text panels. It was created under the auspices of Family Diversity Projects by Smith College intern, Jack Pierson, who took the photographs and interviewed the individuals. Peggy Gillespie, Editor-In-Chief of Family Diversity Projects collaborated with Jack Pierson to create the interview text.