February 16, 2023
“The way he left this world was personal,” she said. “It was intentional.” - Danielle Matthews, mother of Deandre Matthews said to reporters.
AVP will be holding a vigil in memory of Deandre Matthews, a 19-year-old black, gay man who was brutally murdered in Brooklyn, NY in early February. Deandre was last seen on February 6, 2023, and was found on February 7th shot and burned on freight tracks in Midwood, BK.
AVP is amplifying the voice [...]
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February 14, 2023
This February, the New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) will attend Creating Change 2023 in San Francisco, CA with hundreds of LGBTQ organizations from around the country. AVP will release the preliminary results of the LGBTQ National Needs Assessment survey, along with strategic workshops to equip LGBTQ organizations with the tools to protect their spaces and community members.
The troubling rise in anti-LGBTQ harassment and hate violenc[...]
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June 13, 2019
On Monday afternoon, AVP mobilized over 600 people at Foley Square to mourn the loss of, and demand justice for, Layleen Cubilette-Polanco, a 27-year-old Afro-Latinx transgender woman who was found dead in her cell at Rose M. Singer Center at Rikers on June 7, just eleven days before her next scheduled court date.
The news of Layleen Polanco’s death is particularly hard as it comes during a string of reported deaths of trans women of col[...]
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September 28, 2018
Beverly Tillery, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, the nation's largest LGBTQ specific anti-violence organization, issued the following statement on the Kavanaugh hearings and VAWA re authorization:
The treatment of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was just one more demonstration of this Administration’s disrespect and lack of concern for survivors of sexual violence. I watched the hearings with a knot in my stomach, n[...]
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June 26, 2018
MEDIA CONTACT:
Eliel Cruz, Director of Communications
ecruz@avp.org, 212-714-1184
The New York City Anti-Violence Project unequivocally condemns The United States Supreme Court's decision to uphold the unjust, overtly racist travel ban from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Venezuela and North Korea. This policy, enacted by Trump’s Administration through presidential proclamation, is rooted in islamophobia and white supremacy, architecte[...]
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April 13, 2018
The AVP Action Brief tracks actions of the Trump administration that impact our communities’ safety and rights and offers concrete steps that we can take to stand up for safety and justice. We are here for you and we are in this together.
Trump Administration Continues Erasing LGBTQ People In Data Collection
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the nation’s primary source of information of criminal victimization. Data is o[...]
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December 18, 2017
The AVP Action Brief tracks actions of the Trump administration that impact our communities’ safety and rights and offers concrete steps that we can take to stand up for safety and justice.
We are here for you and we are in this together.
Words Matter
On Friday, in a meeting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Trump administration pushed to prohibit the CDC from using a list of seven words in 2018 budget documents:[...]
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September 5, 2017
The AVP Action Brief tracks actions of the Trump administration that impact our communities’ safety and rights and offers concrete steps that we can take to stand up for safety and justice.
We are here for you and we are in this together.
#DefendDACA
Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration will rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), arguing that it was an unconstitution[...]
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August 15, 2017
The AVP Action Brief tracks actions of the Trump administration that impact our communities’ safety and rights and offers concrete steps that we can take to stand up for safety and justice.
We are here for you and we are in this together.
White Supremacy is connected to Homophobia and Transphobia
This weekend, we were horrified—but not surprised—by the outbreak of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. We watched footage of the hor[...]
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July 26, 2017
The AVP Action Brief tracks actions of the Trump administration that impact our communities’ safety and rights and offers concrete steps that we can take to stand up for safety and justice.
We are here for you and we are in this together.
The federal government is taking actions this week to make the country less safe and more hostile for LGBTQ people with two serious threats: to bar transgender people from military service, and to exclud[...]
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June 27, 2017
The AVP Action Brief tracks actions of the Trump administration that impact our communities’ safety and rights and offers concrete steps that we can take to stand up for safety and justice.
We are here for you and we are in this together.
#NoMuslimBanEVER
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed part of President Trump's travel ban to go into effect until it hears oral arguments on the case in the fall. The ban, created by Presidential ex[...]
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May 3, 2017
The AVP Action Brief tracks actions of the Trump administration that impact our communities’ safety and rights and offers concrete steps that we can take to stand up for safety and justice.
We are here for you and we are in this together.
#LicenseToDiscriminate
Tomorrow, President Trump is expected to sign a Religious Exemption Executive Order. This Executive Order will seek to allow discrimination based on religious or moral objections to[...]
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