June 10, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Sg_7RS42PnwAVP’s Executive Director, Audacia Ray, spoke with News 12 following the verdict in O'Shae Sibley's case. We are here for queer New Yorkers who continue to be impacted by this loss. Rest in power, O'Shae. 🏳️🌈 You can reach our bi-lingual 24/7 hotline at 212-714-1141 Report violence at any time through our online form avp.org/get-help/report-violence/ [...]
May 19, 2025
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February 16, 2025
NEW YORK, NY February 16, 2025 CONTACT: Audacia Ray, Interim Executive Director | aray@avp.org | 917-334-8618 “The conditions leading to Sam Nordquist’s murder are a horrible combination of factors – growing permissiveness for anti-trans sentiment, lack of support for trans people of color seeking out close relationships, and a cultural indifference to the humanity of LGBTQ people. In a political moment in which the f[...]
February 14, 2025
Starting in 2021 and through 2023, thanks to community reports to AVP’s hotline, news coverage, and whisper networks in the nightlife communities, AVP documented a series of hook up violence incidents that originated in gay bars in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. AVP produced 11 x 14 posters that bar managers hung near bathrooms as part of the Bar Safety Initiative These incidents became a public concern when two[...]
January 24, 2025
Following a fatal incident in a Harlem Deli on January 2nd, Jaia Cruz, a 24-year –old transgender woman, pled not guilty to the indictment of second-degree murder on Thursday, January 23rd in a Manhattan courtroom. The January 2nd incident between Ray Hodge, a 36-year-old postal worker, and Ms. Cruz, was initially reported as an altercation over a place in line that escalated and resulted in the stabbing death of Mr. Hodge. Subsequent testi[...]
January 8, 2025
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December 12, 2024
When They Marginalize, We Organize. The New York City Anti-Violence Project’s work supporting and advocating for LGBTQ+ and HIV-affected survivors of violence centers LGBTQ survivors and works to build bridges among communities in New York that experience not just homophobia and transphobia but bias and discrimination based on racism, anti-immigrant sentiments, Islamophobia, antisemitism, pushing back against the institutions, people and mi[...]
November 22, 2024
Signing the Securing Access to Fair & Equal (SAFE) Shelter Act into law will help more at-risk people find a safe haven. By Liz Roberts and Audacia Ray - Published by Times Union - 11/19/24 It’s incumbent upon us to try to build a society that allows survivors to heal, thrive and succeed, especially survivors from the communities that are marginalized. But New York’s domestic violence shelter system was designed to administer ser[...]
