Transgender Memorial Garden Dedication

On March 5, 2023,  during the month of Transgender Day of Visibility, Church of the Trinity MCC will be dedicating a Transgender Memorial Garden at 3pm. This is only the second Transgender Memorial Garden in the country to be created and dedicated in memory of those transgender siblings who have been lost because of hate and neglect.

Project Pride SRQ is proud to support the dedication, which will take place on the campus of Church of the Trinity MCC where a variety of faith traditions and organizations will take part in dedicating the garden. It will be open to the public to remember those transgender siblings we have lost to hate crimes, the ones whose names we know and the thousands more that we do not know. It will also be a time to celebrate the lives of our transgender siblings who are living, yet face many challenges that are ignored or unacknowledged.

Stones will be painted by ALSO Youth and placed around the tree in memory of those we have lost in 2022.  After March 5th, stones will be available at the garden for anyone to paint or write on in memory of transgender or gender non-conforming people who have been lost because of hate or neglect .The garden will feature pink and blue flowers and a plaque that reads, “They tried to bury us, they did not know we were seeds.” (Dinos Christianopoulos)