Safe Spaces Archives - NYC Anti-Violence Project

New York City Anti-Violence Project launches landmark nationwide LGBTQ Safe Spaces Protection Project to address growing hate violence threat

December 13, 2022

Hate-based violence is not new, nor are threats to our community. But data shows that a specific type of threat towards LGBTQ people is growing and requires a community-led strategy to solve. In the wake of the shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and countless threats against LGBTQ people and places now is the time to take action to protect our safe spaces. “The organizations and groups we have connected with are beco[...]

Safety for LGBTQ Survivors of Violence During COVID-19 Requires Shrinking the NYPD

June 28, 2020

Safety for LGBTQ Survivors of Violence During COVID-19 Requires Shrinking the NYPD What Budget Justice for LGBTQ Survivors Looks Like and How to Get There The combination of the COVID-19 health crisis and police violence against Black people has put many LGBTQ and HIV-affected people, especially Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, at greater risk for infection than the general population, and in even greater financial precarity th[...]

Take Action To Demand #Justice4Layleen

June 11, 2020

One year ago our community lost Layleen Polanco, a 27-year-old Afro-Latinx trans woman, who was pronounced dead in a solitary confinement cell at Rikers. We mourn the loss of Layleen, a sister, daughter, mother, friend, and community advocate. We are angry and stand with her family as they seek justice for her death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpuO84pnODc AVP demands #JusticeForLayleen. We demand that: The State Legislature pass[...]

Letter to Gov. Cuomo and NYS: IPV Orgs Against Rollbacks

March 27, 2020

Dear Governor Cuomo and New York State Legislature, As organizations that serve hundreds of thousands of survivors of domestic and intimate partner violence (IPV) in New York State, through counseling, support and legal services, and advocacy, we join the growing call of voices opposing rollbacks on bail reform. Contrary to the arguments of those who invoke intimate partner violence to push back against bail reform, rollbacks will not make sur[...]

Letter to New York City and State: #Justice4Layleen Demands

June 26, 2019

AVP Contact: Audacia Ray, Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy aray@avp.org, 212-714-1184 x 18 Media Contact: Eliel Cruz, Director of Communications ecruz@avp.org, 212-714-1184 x 26 Dear Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, We, the undersigned organizations have come together in response to the tragic death of Layleen Xtravanganza Cubilette-Polanco who died while being held on $500 bail in the Rose M. Singer Center at [...]