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Staying Safe and Clearing Browsing History

AVP is committed to your safety. This website provides a quick exit button to leave the site and visit weather.com.

Depending on your circumstances, keeping your browsing history clear helps to anonymize your activity on the Internet. Different web browsers have their own way of clearing history:

Mobile browsers

Android

The steps to clear your cache, cookies, and history may differ depending on the model of your Android device and your preferred browser, but you should be able to clear your cache and data from your application management settings menu:

  1. Go to Settings and choose Apps or Application Manager.
  2. Swipe to the All tab.
  3. In the list of installed apps, find and tap your web browser. Tap Clear Data and then Clear Cache.
  4. Exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser.

Chrome for Android

  1. Tap Chrome menu > Settings.
  2. Tap (Advanced) Privacy.
  3. From the "Time Range" drop-down menu, select All Time.
  4. Check Cookies and Site data and Cached Images and Files.
  5. Tap Clear data.
  6. Exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser.

Safari for iOS

  1. Open your Settings app.
  2. Tap Safari.
  3. Tap Clear History and Website Data and confirm.
  4. Exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser.

Chrome for iOS

  1. Tap Chrome menu > Settings.
  2. Tap Privacy.
  3. Tap Clear Browsing Data.
  4. Choose the data type you want to clear.
  5. Tap Clear Browsing Data.
  6. Exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser.

Desktop browsers

Chrome

  1. In the browser bar, enter: chrome://settings/clearBrowserData
  2. At the top of the "Clear browsing data" window, click Advanced.
  3. Select the following:
    • Browsing history
    • Download history
    • Cookies and other site data
    • Cached images and files

    From the "Time range" drop-down menu, you can choose the period of time for which you want to clear cached information. To clear your entire cache, select All time.

  4. Click CLEAR DATA.
  5. Exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser.

Firefox

  1. From the History menu, select Clear Recent History.

    If the menu bar is hidden, press Alt to make it visible.

  2. From the Time range to clear: drop-down menu, select the desired range; to clear your entire cache, select Everything.
  3. Next to "Details", click the down arrow to choose which elements of the history to clear; to clear your entire cache, select all items.
  4. Click Clear Now.
  5. Exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser.

Microsoft Edge

  1. In the top right, click the Hub icon (looks like star with three horizontal lines).
  2. Click the History icon (looks like a clock), and then select Clear all history.
  3. Select Browsing history, then Cookies and saved website data, and then Cached data and files. Click Clear.
  4. After the "All Clear!" message appears, exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser.

Internet Explorer 11

Note: On January 12, 2016, Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer versions prior to version 11. We strongly recommend that you upgrade to a new operating system if your current system does not support Internet Explorer 11. If you experience difficulty with Internet Explorer, make sure compatibility mode is turned off.

  1. Select Tools > Safety > Delete browsing history....

    If the menu bar is hidden, press Alt to make it visible.

  2. Deselect Preserve Favorites website data, and select:
    • Temporary Internet files or Temporary Internet files and website files
    • Cookies or Cookies and website data
    • History
  3. Click Delete. You will see a confirmation at the bottom of the window when the process is complete.
  4. Exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser.

Opera

  1. From the Opera menu, select Settings, then Privacy & Security, and then Clear browsing data....
  2. In the dialog box that opens, from the "Obliterate the following items from:" drop-down menu, select The beginning of time.
  3. Select the following:
    • Browsing history
    • Download history
    • Cookies and other site data
    • Cached images and files
  4. Click Clear browsing data.
  5. Exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser.

Safari 8 and later

  1. From the Safari menu, select Clear History... or Clear History and Website Data....
  2. Select the desired time range, and then click Clear History.
  3. Go to Safari > Quit Safari or press Command-Q to exit the browser completely.
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In light of the recent surge in violence and threats against our community, the urgency for action has never been more palpable. Across 43 states, an unsettling wave of over 550 bills has been introduced, resulting in more than 80 laws being passed—double the previous year’s count. Incidents relating to sexual orientation reached 1,947 in 2022, a notable increase from 1,711 in 2021, while gender identity-related incidents rose to 469 from 353. AVP’s landmark LGBTQ+ Safe Spaces Protection Project National Needs Assessment found in that same year, more than 3 out of every five LGBTQ+ organizations and businesses experienced hate violence.

This period of increased violence is a stark contrast to the hard-won rights we have fought for over the past five decades.

The silver lining during these challenging times is the strong foundation that AVP has built over the last 50 years, both locally and nationally. Executive Director Bev Tillery, a thought leader and social justice advocate, has dedicated the last 8 years to elevating AVP’s work. While bittersweet, her decision to transition leadership presents us with a unique opportunity: to welcome a new leader armed with a new strategic vision and to increase our impact during this challenging time.

A Special Campaign in support of AVP’s Leadership Transition

The Sustainable Leadership Fund has the ambitious goal of raising $1 million over the next three years. These funds will underwrite our executive transition process, empower the new leader to implement our strategic priorities, and establish a sustainable support base for AVP’s core work beyond the transition.

Your support of the Sustainable Leadership Fund is more vital than ever as we strive to implement the goal of our new strategic plan—to overcome institutional and organized hate threatening our communities’ safety.

With the future in mind, now is also the perfect moment to consider a planned gift to AVP through a bequest in your will or by making AVP a beneficiary of a retirement account or life insurance policy.

Connect with our development team to discuss planned giving opportunities.

Make a special gift or pledge, payable over three years, or consider becoming a monthly/sustainable donor.

Join our Sustainable Leadership Fund Committee to increase visibility and funds for AVP by reaching out to your network—we’ll assist you every step of the way.

Together, we can create a safer city and nation for LGBTQ+ people​.

AVP’s New Strategic Priorities

Leading national efforts to address threats to community safety through community education and training programs and legislative and media campaigns to change policies.

Strengthening AVP’s local work in anti-violence activism via advocacy, organizing and direct support for survivors, by expanding legal services and our hotline, and building an activist rapid crisis response team.

Increasing AVP’s recognition nationally and with its current stakeholders, better utilizing communications tools and staff and volunteers as ambassadors and spokespeople.

Increasing AVP’s recognition nationally and with its current stakeholders, better utilizing communications tools and staff and volunteers as ambassadors and spokespeople.