Boston’s 26th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance

Community Vigil and Dinner

📅 Thursday, November 20, 2025

🕯️ Vigil: 7:00 PM – 8:45pm
📍 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115

🍽️ Community Dinner: 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
📍 Simmons University, Linda K. Paresky Conference Center
300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115

Join Boston’s transgender and nonbinary community to honor and commemorate the 26th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) on Thursday, November 20.

The evening will begin with a Vigil from 7:30–8:45 PM at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, featuring a reflection on the history of TDOR, the reading of names, and a candle-lighting ceremony in remembrance of those we’ve lost to anti-trans violence.

Following the vigil, we will gather for a Community Dinner from 9:00–10:30 PM at Simmons University’s Linda K. Paresky Conference Center, a space for connection, conversation, and collective care.

Transgender Day of Remembrance is both a memorial of the transgender and nonbinary people lost to violence and injustice and a reminder of the systemic inequities that we continue to face, especially amidst a federal administration seeking to eradicate our community as a whole. However, we remain vigilant as ever, rooted in care and community.

✨ This event is free and open to the public.

Public Transportation:

Green Line: Museum of Fine Arts (E), Longwood Medical (E)
Orange Line: Ruggles

Parking:

Simmons University Garage

Getting from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Vigil) to Simmons University (Dinner)

Approximately less than a five minute walk (0.2 miles)
A TDOR Volunteer will support with directing people from the Vigil to the Dinner.