October 7, 2024
- Last week, we shared a statement that intended to express solidarity to Palestinian people and underscore that our free hotline, counseling, and legal services are welcoming and accessible to Arab and Palestinian LGBTQ+ people who call New York home.
Our allies in the progressive Jewish community have helped us recognize where we lacked nuance in addressing the complexities of government actions during war and their effects on civil[...]
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September 17, 2024
AVP is steady and AVP is adapting.
That is the message from AVP’s Board of Directors and Management Team following a recent period of transition for the 40 year-old organization. Over the last several months, AVP has taken on restructuring, leadership changes, budget reductions, and a rescaled strategic plan. These measures ensure that AVP—the largest LGBTQ+-specific anti-violence program in the country reaching more than 11,0[...]
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June 19, 2024
We are grateful and excited to share that, for the second consecutive year, Mischief Toys will be donating the proceeds from their special 2024 Pride Gastley figure and companion pin to AVP!
This VERY limited edition figure and matching pin is out now and is limited to just 385 of each.
We thank Mischief Toys for their continued support of AVP and the LGBTQ+ community!
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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[...]
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February 14, 2025
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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[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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October 7, 2024
Why is AVP posting about this ?
AVP was born from the understanding that we can’t aim for healing and liberation if we stay silent. There’s no room for division in the fight against fascism and systemic oppression. When violence is done to one marginalized group, it’s done to all of us. And in the same way, when any community wins liberation, it plants the seeds of freedom for everyone.
Over the past year, AVP has faced a [...]
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August 9, 2024
The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris has reached its final weekend, throughout these games, instead of simply celebrating the outstanding athletic talent of the world, prominent celebrities and public political figures have been flagrantly transphobic, homophobic and racist by labelling certain female athletes as “biological men,” probing their anatomies and spreading disinformation. Why? Because apparently these phenomenal athletes should [...]
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