January 3, 2017
AVP has learned of an attack on a Black transgender man which occurred on an uptown 4 train at 125th Street in Manhattan on December 24th, 2016. According to media reports, Ijan Jarrett, age 44, offered his seat to a woman on the train, who then used racial slurs and stabbed him under the eye. AVP has reached out to the office of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, the office of New York City Councilmember Inez Dickens, the office of P[...]
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December 19, 2016
AVP has learned of an anti-LGBTQ hate violence incident that occurred outside the organizing space Decolonize This Place on the night of December 17th, 2016. According to media reports, a group of anti-racist activists leaving an event at the space were physically assaulted by four men, who chanted "Trump, Trump, Trump" during the attack. According to witnesses, the motive for the attacks was clearly racist, transphobic, and homophobic in nature:[...]
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December 9, 2016
AVP has learned of the hook-up homicide of a 68-year-old gay identified man in the Bronx. According media reports (trigger warning for extreme violence), the victim was found dead and mutilated in his bathtub inside an apartment on Sheridan Avenue in Claremont on Friday, December 2nd, 2016. Jerry Pagan, age 32, who is homeless, was arrested and charged in connection with the homicide. Media is reporting that the homicide may have been motivated b[...]
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