The vote was unanimous when Boston’s City Council voted last week to support a resolution that recognizes March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility, observed around the world and now, officially, in the City of Boston.
Reads the resolution in part:
The Boston City Council and all residents, join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination against all transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary people, and that the Boston City Council hereby recognize March 31st as Trans Day of Visibility and honor the contributions and achievements of trans people throughout Boston’s history and contemporary society.
Reports universalhub.com:
City councilors voted unanimously today to support the trans community in Boston and across the country on Sunday’s Transgender Day of Visibility.
“We stand on the shoulders of many, many great LGBTQ activists and trans and non-binary demonstrators” in working toward a world where people can just be who they are, City Councilor Liz Breadon (Allston/Brighton), one of the sponsors of the resolution, said.
Breadon noted that the leaders of the 1969 Stonewall riot that helped start the modern push towards LGBTQ rights were transgender. She said that a park in the new Allston Yards development off Guest Street will be named for Rita Hester, whose still unsolved murder in 1998 led to a separate Transgender Day of Remembrance in the fall.
Read the complete Boston City Council resolution here; and here for the complete universal hub.com story.
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