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// May 9th, 2011 // No Comments » // Around the globe, Media discussion
Emma show us how to care for people she has never met and who’s lives she will never experience. So many of us only think about ourselves. let’s follow her example and show others that we care about them and lead the change that will have them caring about others in return.
// March 28th, 2011 // No Comments » // Around the globe
A positive message about homophobia produced by Ernest South Africa.
// February 4th, 2011 // No Comments » // Research, Within Australia
Private Lives 2 is an on-line survey of the health and wellbeing of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Australians.
Undertaken by Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria, in partnership with the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, LaTrobe University, Private Lives 2 aims to be the largest and most comprehensive assessment of the health of Australian GLBT communities to date.
Private Lives 2 will revisit many of the questions used in the original survey (2005) to see if and how things have changed for GLBT people. It will include questions on physical and mental health and wellbeing, use of health services, alcohol and drug use, the impact of legislative reforms, including recognition of same sex relationships, GLBTI people’s experiences of discrimination and their connections to family, friends and community.
The survey will have a greater emphasis on GLBT mental health and depression and will include questions looking at the impact of social connection, including the use of the Internet, on GLBT people’s wellbeing.
It will only take 20 minutes to complete. Find out more & get involved via www.privatelivessurvey.org.au
// January 20th, 2011 // No Comments » // Incidents, Within Victoria
Detectives from Moreland Criminal Investigation Unit are appealing for witnesses to an attack on two men in Brunswick on Christmas night which the Anti-Violence Project say appears to have been hate or prejudice motivated.
According to police, the two men aged, 39 and 28, had left a family Christmas gathering and were walking down Sydney Road about 9.30pm when the attack took place near the Barkly Square Shopping Centre.
Police said they walked behind a utility stopped in Sydney Road when they were attacked by two men from that vehicle.
After the initial attack a second vehicle pulled up and several people from this vehicle also joined in the attack.
During the incident a 39-year-old man was assaulted in the middle of the road where he was punched and kicked.
The second man, 28, who had been attacked, tried to escape by getting into a taxi.
The men attacking him tried to pull him from the taxi and continued to assault while he was in the vehicle.
Police are appealing for any witnesses who saw a white colored utility parked in the middle of Sydney Road near the intersection of Weston Street.
This was the vehicle the first group of attackers came from.
Police are also appealing for any witnesses who saw a dark colored sedan parked at the side of the road with the front passenger door open.
The second group of attackers came form this vehicle.
The two men suffered facial injuries including cuts and bruising and were treated at hospital and released.
There was a large number of people around at the time who witnessed the attack and police are appealing for these people to contact police.
Police have been told that there may have been up to 10 men aged between 20 and 25 involved in the attack the attack.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or contact the website at www.crimestoppers.com.au and the Anti-Violence Project is available to support people in making contact with police or to discuss this incident further.
Reports to Crimestoppers are totally anonymous and protect the confidentiality of people making the call to them.
// December 21st, 2010 // No Comments » // Media discussion, Within Victoria
As news breaks about compromising images of three St Kilda footballers being posted on Facebook, the involvement of a 17 year-old girl in publishing these photos on her Facebook page and questions of how this all came to be, the AVP sees this as a timely warning to the GLBT community about protecting their personal privacy when on-line.
AVP head Greg Adkins says that this safety concern extends to meeting people on-line and providing them with access to homes within a few hours of first meeting.
Check out his comments in Melbourne’s gay and lesbian print media HERE.
// December 16th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Incidents, Within Victoria
A new report of homophobic harassment has been received from the St Kilda foreshore area near St Kilda Pier.
Two gay men were verbally harassed by groups of people numbering between three and four people, up to 15 people, as they walked to the pier. Some escalation of language appears to have taken place. More information will be posted here SOON.
// December 15th, 2010 // No Comments » // Incidents, Media discussion, Within Victoria
Over each of tha AVP’s fourteen years of data collection, the 2010/11 Xmas and new Year period is shaping up as no exception with an increase in homophobic harassment and prejudice motivated violence against individuals in the GLBT community already appearing as the warmer days and nights of Summer bring more people out of their homes in the suburbs into areas with diverse communities. Add alcohol, groups of men, testosterone to ignorance and homophobia and its a potent mix for violence.
Starting in October, two men were hunted down in Collingwood by a four person gang with “the intent (according to Detective Senior Constable Matt Archer) to assault and to assault homosexuals”.
Read more about this incident HERE and further gay print media coverage HERE
The AVP asks anyone, with information that might assist police in locating the fourth suspect, to call police on 000 or make contact with the AVP on 0407664442.
// October 26th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // AVP news, Media discussion, Within Australia, Within Victoria
The Anti-Violence Project of Victoria (AVP) welcomes state premier John Brumby’s announcement of major social policy initiatives supporting GLBTI community as visionary and ground breaking.
AVP head Greg Adkins said “If Mr Brumby is successfully re-elected at the 27 November state election, the $2.5million next-stage of the Labor government’s decade long commitment to celebrating diversity and ending discrimination and violence in our society will deliver:
In addition a re-elected Brumby Labor Government would continue its support for same-sex attracted youth by:
Further to this, the GLBTI community will be asked to step-up and determine what its “voice” would look like and where the provision of a GLBTI community voice will find a home, after the Brumby Government committed a further $100,000 a year for four years for a GLBTI peak body to represent the interests and act on behalf of the community.
The Anti-Violence Project notes that the Premier’s announcement is the first ever of this magnitude by a head of an Australian state or federal government setting-out a plan to deliver state-wide social policy initiatives to ensure that gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals and communities are (in the Premier’s words) “safe, valued and respected.”
“Brumby’s GLBTI policy initiatives are further evidence that the ground has shifted politically in Victoria. The AVP invite all other political parties to come on-board to support the Labor government’s leadership in seeking to provide more support and a real voice for the GLBTI community.
Read the complete announcement from the Premier: More support and a real voice for the GLBTI community.
// October 25th, 2010 // No Comments » // Around the globe
// October 24th, 2010 // No Comments » // Incidents, Media discussion, Within Victoria
The Anti-Violence Project today urged gay men visiting the Footscray Park area to remain alert for potential dangers following the receipt of reports of homophobically motivated physical assaults in the area.
AVP head Greg Adkins said two separate reports have been received that gay men have recently been assaulted in the park. “We ask anyone in the GLBT community living nearby to Footscray Park or travelling past, to be vigilant and adopt protective behaviours especially when groups of males are moving through the park or adjacent areas.
“Anyone with information is urged to contact the Anti-Violence Project and either make an online violence report, speak directly with someone from the AVP by calling 0407664442, or leave a messages for the AVP to follow-up on 03 9660 3970.
“If you feel unsafe call Police 000 and move away from danger. When safe contact the AVP,” he said.
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