Posts Tagged ‘vigil’
Guardian Article
02Nov09
During the vigil on Friday night, I was interviewed for the Guardian newspaper (I am the ‘young transsexual woman to my right’). Today Patrick Strudwick published the article ‘Standing strong against hate‘ on guardian.co.uk. I ask a young transsexual woman to my right why she’s here. “I get abuse every single day,” she says. “From […]
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Vigil
01Nov09
Friday was a tough day, for some reason. But things have a way of happening at the right time too. Just when I was starting to feel pretty bad about things, something happened that helped pull me out of the dark I was feeling. That thing was the candlelight vigil at Trafalgar Square against hate-crimes. […]
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Tags: hate-crimes, homophobic, LGBT, Trafalgar Square, transphobic, vigil