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TransVision's 10 Year Anniversary Gala
Rebecca D. Kaplan
The event is an anniversary gala celebrating 10 Years of Transgender Services in Alameda County delivered by the TransVision Program. The gala will be a 2 hour event with dancing, socializing and an awards/appreciation ceremony. The event will have light food (some catered) and a beer and wine bar.
This will be the first time that the transgender community has ever been celebrated at Oakland City Hall and we really want this to be special event kicking off Gay Pride month in Oakland celebrating 10 years of dedication, hard work, and survival in tough economic times by the TransVision Program providing critical services to the transgender community, especially trans women of color.
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ALAMEDA COUNTY TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE MEMORIAL 2012
Transgender Day of Remembrance is held every year on November 20. An International day of mourning and remembrance for transgender and gender variant individuals killed worldwide due to anti-transgender violence over the previous twelve months. 2012 marks the 14th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance and the seventh to be held in Oakland, CA. Alameda County has participated since 2006.
Produced by TransVision and held at the Peace Center in Oakland, CA, the 2012 event will be remembered as the year we read the name of our own team member, Brandy Martell.
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The first time the mayor of Oakland, Mayor Jean Quan, attended and spoke; and the first time a member of the Oakland Police Department attended and spoke, Oakland Police Department Spokeswomen, Johanna Watson.
Our key note speaker was Sylvia Guerrero, in remembrance of the 10 year anniversary of the death of her daughter, Gwen Arajuo.
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The 2012 TDOR will always be remembered as the most difficult to produce, both physically and emotionally, and the toughest to get through.
Partnerships
One again, our Honorary Co-Host's for the Oakland Day of Remembrance Event were Congressman George Miller, represented by Adrienne Ursino D-7, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, D-9, and Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro.
Congressman George Miller's Statement Click Here
Acknowledgements
This TDOR event would not have been possible without the incredible efforts and contributions of the TransVision Team of Lee Staub, Lorena Martinez, Janet Halfin, Teri Washington; our Transgender Advisory Board Members: Marah Cruz, Kayla Moore, Ro Burton, Cynthia Hernandez, Brandy Blackmon, Brianna Coleman, Felicia Johnson, Sara Mubarek, Malaysia; our entertainers: Brandy Blackmon and Crystal Smith, community members Joanne Voorheis and Deanne Bruetsch and many more.
As always, it is the people who attend that deserve so much for giving of their time and emotions to remember those who were taken from us. Your support and attendance is always appreciated and never taken for granted.
To view or download the commemorative TDOR 2012 Program created by Lee Staub Click here: COMING SOON
Click here for the complete TDOR 2012 Report
Media
Links to complete press coverage:
Bay Area Reporter Pre Event Press: http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=68270Bay Area Reporter Elliott Owens covered for the BAR: http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=68279
Oakland North Reporter Madeline Thomas covered:
http://oaklandnorth.net/2012/11/19/ceremony-at-oakland-center-honors-victims-of-anti-transgender-violence/
Huffington Post SF writer and blogger Vanessa L. Pinto/Fleur De Lis covered:
http://vanessalpinto.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/transvisions-transgender-day-of-remembrance/
The Advocate.com TDOR coverage:
13 Transgender Americans Murdered in 2012 Looking at the lives of transgender and gender-nonconforming people killed (so far) this year to mark the International Transgender Day of Remembrance.
http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2012/11/20/13-transgender-americans-murdered-2012?page=0%2C10
Screening of "TRANS", on Sunday Nov 18th, 2012
As part of the weekends Transgender Day of Remembrance events, TransVision will host a screening of the award winning film, "TRANS" at the historic BAL Theatre in San Leandro on Sunday Nov 18, 3- 6. There will be a Q and A afterwards with local cast members including Tiffany Woods, and Director Chris Arnold.
Screening: 3:30-5, Q and A: 5-6
"TRANS" recently won Best Documentary Award at the 2012 Fresno Reel Pride, the Jury Award at the Louisville LGBT Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Philadelphia Q Fest. Trans filmed scenes in the Bay Area in 2010 at Transgender Day of Remembrance events in Oakland and SF.
There will be a $7.50 admission price for the screening, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
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1st Annual Alameda County Transgender Health and Resource Conference
"I am proud to collaborate with Tri-City Health Center in this historic step to advocate for the transgender community of the East Bay," said Congresswoman Lee. "This conference brings vital attention to the inequalities faced by transgender individuals. I am pleased that our service providers are working to empower and protect our community."
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-9), Press Release May 2010TransVision, in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente, held the 1st Annual Alameda County Transgender Health and Resource Conference on May 14 at Preservation Park, Oakland.
This historic first ever event for transgender people in Alameda County had 20 organizations/agencies participating in offering resources, services and workshops.
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Also joining the participants were the Office of Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-9), Office of Congressman George Miller (D-7), and the Office of Senator Ellen Corbett (D-10). Oakland Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-9) attended and gave an empowering speech that spoke to the needs of the transgender community both nationally and here in Alameda County and Oakland City Councilmember At-Large Rebecca Kaplan followed by affirming the importance of the transgender community as part of the fabric of Oakland. Vicky Kolakowski, Administrative Law Judge, Candidate for Alameda County Superior Court Judge, spoke to the importance of trans people getting involved in the political process in Alameda County.
Katie Tague, from the Office of Senator Ellen Corbett (D-10), presented TransVision with a certificate from Sate Senator Ellen Corbett, recognizing the conference and its significance. Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums also sent over a Certificate of Congratulations.
- Danielle Castro and Jamison Greene: Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, UCSF
- Danny Kirchoff: Transgender Health and the Law, Transgender Law Center
- Dr Nick Gorton, Lyon-Martin Health Services: Hormones 101
- Community Provider Panel: Danielle Castro and JoAnne Keatley, MSW, Director, Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, UCSF.
TransVision Assistant Coordinator Tanajsha Thomas facilitated a panel on the experiences of African American trans people living in the East Bay and Peer Educator Lorena Martinez facilitated a panel on the experiences of Latina trans women living in the East Bay. Peer Educator Brandy Martell flawlessly coordinated a very busy registration table.
TransVision team members, clients, volunteers, and TCHC staff all came together to help make this historic first ever Transgender Health Conference in Alameda County an overwhelming success.
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Tri-City Health Center and TransVision would like to thank the following for helping make this conference possible:
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TransVision Represents at Equality and Parity II:
A Statewide Action for Transgender HIV Prevention and Care
The second statewide conference on Transgender HIV Prevention and Care was held over 3 days in Los Angeles from 1/26-1/28, 2009. The first one was held in 2005 in San Francisco. The TransVision team, Tanajsha, Brandy, Mimi, and Tiffany attended the conference.
Tiffany, who is the Chair of the Executive Committee of the State Wide Community Advisory Board (CAB) for the Center of Excellence for Transgender HIV Prevention , UCSF, (COE) presented with the COE in Tuesday's opening Plenary. The COE is the unofficial advisory body to the State Office of AIDS on transgender issues.
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Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report
CDC Director Julie Gerberding on Friday at a forum in Oakland, Calif., said that more money is needed to fight HIV/AIDS in the black community, particularly among black men who have sex with men, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
"We have not succeeded in our prevention efforts," Gerberding said at the meeting, which was hosted by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.). She added, "You have to scale the money to the scope of the problem. The pie is only so big right now. What we need is a bigger pie."
Although 13% of the U.S. population is black, the group makes up about 50% of people living with HIV, the Chronicle reports. Among young people newly diagnosed between 2001 and 2005, 61% were black, and 48% of cases among black men were linked to sex with other men. HIV/AIDS rates among black men were seven times higher than those among white men in 2005, according to CDC.
The Bush administration has proposed reducing CDC's budget request for HIV prevention and surveillance funding by $1 million to $691 million in the upcoming fiscal year. According to the Chronicle, Gerberding often testified before Congress that she wanted more money for CDC than was requested by her superiors in the administration. She requested $7.2 billion for the agency last year, but the budget was reduced to $5.9 billion.
In response to HIV/AIDS in the black community, Lee said that she is again calling on the federal government to declare a "national public health emergency." She added, "We need to make sure not only that resources are increased, but are targeted to where they are needed most."
George Lemp, director of the Universitywide AIDS Research Program at the University of California, said studies from the early 1990s repeatedly found that HIV was spreading twice as fast among black MSM than among white MSM but that prevention programs were not reaching young black men. "Our interventions are targeting the wrong people, in the wrong places and at the wrong time of day," he said (Russell, San Francisco Chronicle, 5/10).
Click on these news links to check out more reports from the event:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6134010
sfgate article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/10/MN8U10K0M0.DTL&hw=CDC+julie+gerberding&sn=001&sc=1000
TransVision is Recipient of the TLC Community Partner Award
TransVision was honored with a 2007 Community Partner Award at the TLC annual awards gala. TransVision and Tri-City Health Center are an integral component in the Health Care Access Project in Alameda County as well as the only transgender program in the county providing HIV Services for transgender women. TransVision is honored to be selected as a community partner of the Transgender Law Center.
We would like to thank Chris Daley, Cecilia Chung and The Transgender Law Center for acknowledging all of the hard work of TransVision and the many lives that have been touched through all of its efforts.
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TransVision Program Coordinator, Tiffany Woods accepting the Community Partner Award
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Leaders Working Together for Equality
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2nd Annual Transgender Leadership Summit March 23-25, 2007
Topping Student Center
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
All of this took place on the beautiful campus of USC in downtown Los Angeles. It was great to see so many colleagues from Northern California make the track down South. One of the highlights for me was seeing so many young people attend the summit who are out and proud and making a difference back home in their communities. The times have truly changed since I was in my 20"s so many years ago.
Much discussion went on about who is a leader, what does leadership mean, or how do you define the characteristics of a leader. One need look no further then Transgender Law Center Executive Director, Chris Daley. Chris was and always is the first to roll up his sleeves to do what needs to be done, whether it was getting coffee, moving tables to another location, or simple housekeeping. A leader leads by example and does not ask someone to do something they are not willing to do themselves. At least that is the way I was taught.
Thanks, Chris, for leading by example, and moving the movement forward.
Tiffany Woods, Summit Planning Committee member
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