Category: EDUCATION
AVP’s Cops Out of Pride + Pride Safety FAQs
AVP’s Vision for Community Safety at Pride
March 17, 2023
Filing taxes can be complex, even more so for us in LGBTQ+ community. Since many of us stand at one or more intersections, often with one or more jobs or sources of income, navigating our taxes can get complicated. AVP understands this and wants to ensure that our community is covered this tax season. On March 20, 2023, AVP, in partnership with Grow Brooklyn and Mobilization for Justice, will be hosting ‘Taming Your Taxes’ a free, live [...]
June 17, 2021
Click each question below to learn more about AVP's vision for community safety at Pride. AVP’s Cops out of Pride campaign aims to promote safety and wellbeing for all LGBTQ people at the Pride March in Manhattan, outside of policing and criminalization. AVP serves and supports LGBTQ survivors, which include working class and poor LGBTQ and HIV-affected survivors of color who are disproportionately criminalized, arrested, and/or detai[...]
This year, the New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) is excited to launch Cops Out of Pride, our campaign to remove the presence of the NYPD from Pride celebrations in New York City. AVP works to end all forms of violence against LGBTQ and HIV-affected people, including police violence. Forty years ago, AVP was founded because members of our community were being attacked, and when they went to the police, they experienced indifference and m[...]
February 26, 2021
In supporting LGBTQ survivors of violence, it’s always important for us to address and affirm the experiences survivors navigate. So what is economic abuse? According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, economic abuse involves maintaining control over financial resources, withholding access to money, or attempting to prevent a person from working and/or attending school in an effort to create financial dependence as a means [...]
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