![]() ![]() “She very well may not have had access to jobs, to education, to safe housing because she was transgender.”Īnother significant event taking place this month in Philadelphia is Pride Day on June 14, which this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the breakthrough 1965 gay rights picket on Independence Mall.īut Fitzpatrick says, despite all of the commonwealth’s progress toward LGBT rights including the legalization of same-sex marriage, there’s still no blanket policy outlawing discrimination against LGBT people in Pennsylvania. “Looking at the way in which London lost her life and where she was when that happened speaks to systemic breakdown,” said Fitzpatrick. In May, a transgender woman named London Chanel was stabbed to death inside the abandoned Philadelphia rowhome where she lived. ![]() It comes at a critical time for the city’s transgender community. The conference starts Thursday (when, at noon, officials will raise the transgender pride flag above City Hall) and continues through Saturday at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor
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