MTPC announces Transgender Awareness Week 2010 schedule of events

The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) on Nov. 5 proudly announced the official schedule of events for this year's Transgender Awareness Week.

More than twenty public education events will be held across the state in honor of the special week, designed to create awareness about Massachusetts' transgender citizens and the challenges they can face.

"What is exciting about Transgender Awareness Week is that people of every level of understanding can participate in these events, with the ultimate goal being that we all finish the week learning something," said MTPC Executive Director Gunner Scott.

Transgender Awareness Week 2010 will take place from Nov. 13 to Nov. 21 and is sponsored by the MTPC, and co-sponsored by State Street Corporation, The Network/La Red, Fenway Health, and TransCEND, a project of AIDS Action Committee.

MTPC will host the world premiere of their new project "I AM: Trans People Speak" on Nov. 14 with video screenings and the distribution of information about how transgender people can participate in the project and share their stories. (Visit www.transpeoplespeak.org for more information.) This event will be held at Bella Luna/Milky Way at the Brewery Complex in Jamaica Plain from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m.

Other events include Dyke Night at Machine Nightclub to benefit MTPC on Nov. 13; a transgender health open house hosted by Fenway Health on Nov. 16; film screening of Play in Gray hosted by the Boston LGBT Film Festival and Emerson College; BAGLY's Youth Led Trans Educational Event; QWOC's Reframing Masculinity: A Discussion on Masculinity within Queer/Trans Communities of Color on Nov. 20; Transgender Day of Remembrance observations across the state on Nov. 18, 19, and 20; and the Week will conclude on Nov. 21 with TraniWreck hosting a benefit show for MTPC called TransGiving.

Several of the events are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit www.masstpc.org.