We remember.

[solarbird]

Reposted from behind a friendslock, with permission:

Here are some people who are stone cold dead whose faces and names you are not likely to see on a bunch of images that all of your good-natured friends will post on their Facebooks, or bother spending so much thought on as to change the color of their clothing. They are dead, dead, dead. They are and can never stop being violently murdered, raped and mutilated. They are murdered in places you might dismiss as hellholes like Thailand, Turkey and Indonesia. Their murder is become routine in Puerto Rico. They are murdered in New York, San Francisco and Chicago. They get no more existence, no alternative to their murder, they are no more here on Earth. That's it, that's all.

Comments

[leftbase.livejournal.com]

Is there permission to spread this further? I'll post the link, but I would also like to include these words.

[solarbird]

I didn't ask specifically, but it's public now, so, really, there's no stopping it. Or if you're asking me, then yes, of course.

[leftbase.livejournal.com]

I was sure it would be okay with you, and I couldn't imagine why it wouldn't be okay with the person who wrote it, but still I thought I should ask.

It is now re-reposted. I hope it spreads fast.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

Given the....interesting conversation at work yesterday, there is certainly a lack of understanding even in the United States.

[solarbird]

The US is not a particularly good country in this respect. It's not a particularly horrible one, as far as I know, but it's not a particularly good one, either. (Even if you exclude Puerto Rico, which is a US territory, the US is mentioned three times in the above, of course.)

[gwendally.livejournal.com]

Was the conversation about whether Tyler Clemente's story was airbrushed into fitting a media narrative? Because that's been bugging ME and there isn't any way of talking about it without sounding homophobic.

Yes, homophobia exists. But that doesn't appear to be in the top 10 reasons why Tyler Clemente killed himself.

It bugs me when people warp tragedy to fit their political agenda. Even if I agree with the agenda.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

Actually, the conversation was between two associates regarding a customer who, based on the description, is transgender.

It wasn't at all friendly. I'm just not quite sure how to describe it, but it certainly made me uncomfortable. (and to answer, yes, very much in the closet for various reasons I won't go into)

[foibos.livejournal.com]

In my teens, I had a TG-leaning phase. During that time, I told my male friends on several occasions that I wished to be female, and a couple of times I acted in a "feminine" manner in their presence. Their reactions were quite tolerant, even fairly respectful; my best friend even went along with it a couple of times.

I didn't think much on it at the time, and in the best of worlds their attitude would indeed only be natural. But I *was* lucky, and days like this I just want to hug them all for being great friends.

[chirik.livejournal.com]

That list is way too long, and it isn't getting any shorter.

A couple years ago, someone I'd met briefly through support groups was found murdered in San Francisco, but has never appeared. The murder may not have been trans-related, and the police did not draw the conclusion that it was. I wonder how many others never are heard about, either.

San Francisco, thought to be so accepting, almost always makes that list. :-(