Community Alerts

AVP has learned of a public anti-LGBT hate violence incident that occurred in the early hours of Monday, April 1st, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood. A woman was dining at the Waverly Diner on 6th Avenue when she was approached by a man who made anti-LGBT remarks and hit her in the face with a ketchup bottle. The NYPD has just released a description and images of the alleger offender, however this person has not been apprehended.

As AVP told you on January 17th, 2013, on Sunday January 13th, a member of the Crown Heights, Brooklyn LGBTQ community, Jabbar Campbell was attacked by NYPD officers from the 77th Precinct. This area has a history of police violence against LGBTQ people. AVP and partner organizations responded with a community safety night on January 26th in Crown Heights to increase our communities' awareness of our rights and how to stay safe. AVP has since learned of reports that Campbell and his roommates have experienced subsequent harassment by NYPD members. According to multiple media sources, the police have returned several times to the apartment to interrogate Campbell's roommates. As in the case of the original incident, there is security footage of these incidents.

AVP has learned of an anti-gay hate violence incident that occurred on Sunday, March 10th in Astoria, Queens. According to the survivor's partner's Tumblr blog, which is being widely shared on online and on social media, the survivor was called a "faggot" by a man who was walking past him on the street. The survivor then followed the alleged offender down the street, filming him, and confronting him about what he had done. At one point, the alleged offender turns and shoves the survivor away from him. AVP is deeply concerned by this public incident of hate violence.

AVP has learned of reports of ongoing incidents of same-gender sexual violence at the Bronx High School of Science that occurred between December 2012 and February 2013. According to a criminal complaint obtained by CBS New York, three male members of the school's track team have been charged with sexual abuse of a younger male teammate. According to multiple media reports, the incidents included ongoing sexual assault as well as threats of rape.

AVP has learned of reports that a transgender woman was sexually assaulted at gunpoint by at least three people in Midtown Manhattan yesterday. The suspects fled after the assault, police said. The woman treated for bruises and abrasions at Roosevelt Hospital. The NYPD has released surveillance images of three suspects. This incident is currently being investigated by the NYPD and by the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force; however, at this time it is unclear whether the attack was bias-motivated.