Sunday 18th November 6.30pm (refreshments from 6pm)

Each year, on the Sunday closest to 20th November, Open Table (a monthly service for LGBT Christians, their families and friends, and all who believe in an inclusive church) organises  a service dedicated to Transgender Day of Remembrance.  

The International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), has been celebrated worldwide every year since 1998.  On that day, 20th November, we memorialise the people from across the globe who have been killed that year, by murder or by suicide as a result of their perceived transgender identity . Those people may have been transsexual, intersex, cross dressers or others, or they may have been mistaken for someone else. But their lives were ended because they did not conform to the gender roles that other people expected of them.  The TDoR began on November 28th, 1998, to honour Rita Hester, whose murder on that day kicked off the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999.  Rita Hester’s murder — like most anti-transgender murder cases — has yet to be solved.

St Bride's believes that all people are beloved children of God and that includes God's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender children in our all diversity, strength and weaknesses.  On Sunday 18th November at 6pm, we will gather for a Eucharist to celebrate the survivors, remember the victims and continue to pray for a world where all are truly welcome.  Please come along to add your prayers to ours.