Slain transgender people remembered around world
NEW YORK -- Events are being held around the world to mark the 11th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. The Nov. 20 event memorializes transgender people killed because of their gender identity. In New York City, a vigil was scheduled for Friday at a Manhattan community center for transgender people. In July, a New York jury convicted a man in the state's first hate crime conviction for the killing of a transgender person. Dwight DeLee was convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime in the 2008 slaying of Lateisha Green in Syracuse. In June, a national coalition said that last year transgender people accounted for 12 percent of victims of reported violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. ------ On The Net: www.gaycenter.org, www.transgenderdor.org (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
