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New York City marked the 14th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20 with events throughout the city, including a march across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Atlanta put a positive spin on the Transgender Day of Remembrance with a free health fair, plus a community panel discussion and gala event to honor those working to improve life for the transgender community.

Boston’s LGBT community came together on Sunday at the State House to honor the 265 transgender men and women killed in bias crimes this year across the world, as part of the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Events in Dallas & Austin on Nov. 19, 20 & 21 to commemorate the sad history of violence against transgendered people in the U.S. & abroad & continued discrimination on all levels.

In spite of some disagreement over whether the Transgender Day of Remembrance’s tone is too somber, activists around the world will hold vigils and other events on Saturday, Nov. 20, to commemorate those who have lost their lives because of anti-trans violence.

Forty-five people gathered at Bell Street Chapel in Providence on Sunday to honor those who have lost their lives because of anti-transgender violence.

Gwendolyn Smith founded the TDOR in San Francisco in Nov. 1999 as a way to "memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice."

More than 100 people gathered inside an Oak Park church on Saturday, Nov. 14, for a vigil held to commemorate the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.