# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Trans Day of Remembrance Vigil
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: “With so many seeking to erase transgender people - sometimes in the most brutal ways possible - it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice”
-Gwendolyn Ann Smith, Founder of Trans Day of Remembrance

On Thursday, November 20th, our community will come together in honor & remembrance of those we’ve lost to transphobic violence over the past year.

Hosted by Grand Rapids Pride Center, Grand Rapids Trans Foundation, and GVSU’s Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center, this event (Located at the L. William Seidman Center, Room 1008 at 50 Front Ave SW, Grand Rapids, MI) will feature a vigil, a reading of the names of our lost extended family as well as a short program featuring guest speakers and musicians from the community. 

Emotional and mental health resources and space will be available, and light refreshments will be provided.

Please be mindful of our guests who have scent sensitivities by refraining from wearing scents.

Accessible parking is available in the Fulton Lot at Fulton and Mt. Vernon, which is underneath US-131 and directly under the Laker Line bus stop.

There will be ASL interpretation for this event.

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- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/grand-rapids/trans-day-of-remembrance-vigil/200029190936620
- **Event Categories**: music, health-wellness, entertainment, lgbt-pride, mental-health
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029190936620?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=grand+rapids-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Grand Rapids
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: L. William Seidman Center
- **lat**: 42.96184
- **long**: -85.67902
- **full address**: L. William Seidman Center, 50 Front Ave SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6424, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Grand Rapids Pride Center (https://allevents.in/org/grand-rapids-pride-center/26561476)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** L. William Seidman Center, 50 Front Ave SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6424, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Grand Rapids Pride Center
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** music, health-wellness, entertainment, lgbt-pride, mental-health
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Trans Day of Remembrance Vigil ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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