Last
Sunday night at Taylor Square Sydney, the traditional heart of the LGBTI
community, something very special happened. Trans Sydney Pride, TSP, a social
and support group for the Sydney trans community, held the first Sydney Transgender
Day of Remembrance Candlelight Vigil.
From
7-30 pm on a warm spring evening people began to gather under the large Pride
flag that fly’s on Gilligan’s Island. My trans sisters in a large number, our
trans brothers, our beautiful friends and allies and a sprinkling of our
community leaders and community organisation’s representatives. The gathering
was estimated very conservatively to be of 250 plus.
Just
before 8 pm as the light was fading a group of transmen and women, who had
marched from an earlier event at Harmony Park, arrived via the South end of the
Square led by Police transwoman Sargent Val Wagstaff carrying the Transgender
Flag. She took centre position on the Island under the Pride Flag and quietly
and with great pride gave the event a visual heart.
Peta
Friend the founder of TSP set the mood, as everyone held their flicking
candles, with some short well-chosen messages and context of the day,
mentioning that our sisters are also gathering at similar events all over the
world. Greg Gould sang a very elegant arrangement of ‘Somewhere over the
Rainbow’ before the crowd marked a minute of silence.
At
the invitation of Peta we all began placing our candles along the Island’s
perimeter wall as Naomi Palmer, accompanied by Koko D’Vyne on guitar, sang a
tender ‘Now is the Hour’. That site
of all those flickering candles on mass gave the now dusk light the same glow
as many of us had in our hearts.
This
wonderful event was produced by Katherine Wolfgramme of TSP with such style and
simple grace that combined the spirit of the day’s remembrance aspect with a
sense of respect and togetherness of the Sydney community.
Why
is this special? Because I think at last we in have found an annual event that
the trans community can mark in such a public way, in such an important space –
that we can in the now, and moving forward mark November 20 in the diary as a
way of acknowledging the T in Sydney’s LGBTI family.
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