May 12, 2025
AVP Files Amicus Brief in Support of City Council’s Lawsuit to Stop the Adams Administration from Allowing ICE to Return to Rikers Island NEW YORK, NY | May 13, 2025 MEDIA CONTACT: Leslie Allen, Director of Legal Services | lallen@avp.org | 212.714.1184 x34 The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) filed an amicus brief on May 12, 2025, in support of the New York City Council’s lawsuit challenging Executive Order 50. Issued by the Ada[...]
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[...]
February 14, 2025
Starting in 2021 and through 2023, thanks to community reports to AVP’s hotline, news coverage, and whisper networks in the nightlife communities, AVP documented a series of hook up violence incidents that originated in gay bars in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. AVP produced 11 x 14 posters that bar managers hung near bathrooms as part of the Bar Safety Initiative These incidents became a public concern wh[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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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