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VIDEO: Casa Ruby holds Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil

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Upwards of 100 people gathered in Dupont Circle on Friday for a Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil. Casa Ruby organized the event, which was part of the organization’s “Trans Lives Matter” campaign it launched earlier in the week.

The Rev. Richard Weinberg of St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church and Casa Ruby CEO Ruby Corado are among those who spoke before Casa Ruby staffers read the names of more than 50 trans people who have died over the last year.

They include Alice Carter, a homeless trans woman who died in D.C. last December, and Yunieski “Yuni” Carey Herrera, a Cuban-born trans woman who was brutally stabbed to death inside her Miami apartment on Nov.

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