June 23, 2017
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) has learned of the intimate partner violence-related homicide of Richelle Horsley and the suicide of Fransiska Dastrup, which occurred the morning of June 22, 2017. According to local media reports, Horsley was found shot in a car next to another vehicle, and Dastrup was found away from the car with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to police, the two women were in a relationship an[...]
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June 22, 2017
AVP has learned of an anti-transgender hate violence incident which took place on Sunday, June 18th in Morris Heights, Bronx. According to media reports, two transgender women who are in a relationship were harassed and threatened by a man with a bat while they were walking to get food around midnight on Nelson Avenue. The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is currently investigating the incident.
AVP has reached out to the Audre Lorde Project, the o[...]
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June 14, 2017
Yesterday, we hosted a Twitter Town Hall using the hashtag #Not1Story to discuss the findings from our 2016 report and build together for the future. We tweeted out four guiding questions, and our fantastic friends, coalition members, community members, and other LGBTQ and anti-violence organizations took care of the rest!
Here are some great responses from yesterday's Town Hall. From the conversation, it's clear that the LGBTQ anti-violence m[...]
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June 13, 2017
AVP has learned of an anti-transgender hate violence incident which took place on Saturday, June 10th in Bushwick, Brooklyn. According to media reports, two transgender women and artists, Jasmine Infiniti and London Jade, were attacked, slashed and beaten by a group of men and women shouting transphobic and homophobic slurs. The two women were treated at Bellevue Hospital for serious injuries. A You Caring Fund was set up in the wake of the attac[...]
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June 12, 2017
Leading up to today, you may be reading many articles about Pulse, what it means to our communities, what we can learn from it, and what we can do to come together and work to end violence against LGBTQ communities as hate speech and violence are on the rise. This article is not about that. This piece is about how we keep ourselves and communities whole as we do the necessary work of fighting to make things better. It’s about how we take care o[...]
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I remember that night like it was just yesterday. Looking at my phone and seeing the pictures of two people l consider family, one being like a son to me and one being like a sister to me.
I remember saying – “Oh my god, I wish I was there with you. Have fun for me and be safe.” And then I fell asleep.
I woke up several hours later to many frantic text messages from my sister telling me she cannot find my son and that there was a fata[...]
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Last year, our country suffered the loss of 77 LGBTQ individuals to senseless hate violence. Most of these hate violence victims were people of color and many were transgender and gender nonconforming. One year ago today, on June 12, 2016, the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando took the lives of 49 mostly Latinx LGBTQ young adults, wounded over 50 others and deeply traumatized hundreds. This massacre shook the LGBTQ community and our entire coun[...]
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Today the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) released its 20th annual report Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and HIV-Affected Hate Violence in 2016. For this report - the most comprehensive of its kind - NCAVP collected data on 1,036 incidents of hate violence against LGBTQ and HIV-affected people from 12 local NCAVP member organizations in 11 states. Key findings include:
2016 was the deadliest year on record fo[...]
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June 8, 2017
By Emily Waters, Senior Manager of National Research and Policy
@Emiwaters
So far in 2017, The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) has received reports of 21 LGBTQ lives taken by non intimate partner related fatal violence, a nearly 70% increase in the number of reported homicides this time last year. By this time last year, NCAVP had received 12 reports of non intimate partner violence related homicides of LGBTQ people. Of[...]
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June 5, 2017
AVP has learned of an anti-LGBTQ incident which occurred which took place on May 26th, 2017 on Miller Avenue and Fulton Street in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn at around 4:10 a.m. in the morning. According to media reports, a 38-year-old woman was attacked by two men shouting anti-LGBTQ slurs. One person has been charged with assault as a hate crime in connection with the attack.
AVP has reached out to Make the Road New York, the office of City Co[...]
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May 26, 2017
AVP has learned of an anti-LGBTQ incident which occurred on a Q train in Brooklyn on Saturday, May 20th at about 7:30pm. According to media reports, a man attacked a woman and her girlfriend while shouting homophobic slurs as the train pulled into the DeKalb Station. Antoine Thomas, 27, was apprehended in connection with the attack. One of the survivors required medical attention at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital for the severity of their injuries.
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May 22, 2017
NCAVP has learned of the possible hate violence homicide of Imer Alvarado, in Fresno, California
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) has learned of the possible hate-violence homicide of Imer Alvarado on the night of May 16th in Fresno, California. According to media reports, Imer was fatally shot multiple times, following a dispute with a suspect whom police are currently seeking. Though Imer was dressed in feminine-present[...]
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