The Trans Day of Remembrance UK
Croydon, Monday 14th to Saturday 19th November 2011
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There was a display explaining the Trans Day of Remembrance on the first floor of the Central Library, Katharine Street, from Monday 14th to Saturday 19th November.
During that week spring bulbs were planted in central Croydon, to brighten the town centre as a living memorial.
Whose boots are these?
Croydon from 2pm, Saturday 19th November 2011
On Saturday, from 2pm a very diverse crowd of people began to meet in the Clocktower Cafe, Katharine Street, homing in on the trans flag.
At 3pm by the display on the first floor of the Central Library, Katharine Street - also in the Clocktower building - there was a short ceremony of remembrance. The names of victims were read.
Three people of concern in Croydon were named separately, Kellie Telesford, murdered in uncertain circumstances in 2007, Sonia Burgess, human rights lawyer, who died under a train at Kings Cross underground in October this year, and a personal friend of a member of Croydon Trans Group whose death is believed to have been a suicide caused by the pressure she was under.
The ceremony ended with a minute's silence.
Following the ceremony, at 3.45pm in The Bird in Hand, pub, 48 Sydenham Road there was a private showing of Jane Anderson's film "Normal", starring Tom Wilkinson and Jessica Lange. See reviews.
This was accompanied by a buffet meal and followed by a time to socialise.
Croydon, 11am Sunday 20th November 2011
On Sunday 20th the Unitarian Church (1, The Flyover, Croydon) referred to the TDoR in its morning service and adapted a prayer in memory of the victims remembered this year.
